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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
This amused me. In Tessa Hadley's story (July 24) the main character's son had a telly in his room "with a twisted coat hanger for an aerial."
Maybe aerial is a Britishism, but when I was a little boy, we used that word interchangeably with antenna to mean the same thing.
I will also admit to learning high jinks from Jill Lepore's article on bears (July 24) and a theater entry in "Goings On About Town" (July 31). Seriously, I thought it was one word, highjinks, with high jinks perhaps an antiquated TNY-ism, perhaps because I've seen it instead as hijinx, but online Webster confirms that high jinks is correct. (Webster shows hijinx as a less-common variant.)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 31, 2023, 01:02:21 pm --- (Webster shows hijinx as a less-common variant.)
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I think of it as the more common variant. Makes me wonder what jinx even are, and how high ones compare to lojinx (not a word, AFAIK).
Well, OK, I guess I could consult a dictionary on jink. Still doesn't really explain the word hijinx but maybe gives it a little context.
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Definitions from Oxford Languages ? Learn more
jink
verb
change direction suddenly and nimbly, as when dodging a pursuer.
"she was too quick for him and jinked away every time"
noun
a sudden quick change of direction.
"people remember him for his runs on the wing, his jinks"
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I've been going through the articles I ripped out and stapled together last time I sorted through my old TNYs. Just read one from 2019 about a woman working in the tech industry, Anna Wiener, that I liked. She published a whole memoir about that and it's supposed to be pretty good, but now I don't have to read it! :laugh:
Front-Ranger:
Reminds me of Ennis's "high time entertainment". :)
Jeff Wrangler:
Giovanni's Room is just across the street from my barber shop, so after I got my hair cut today, I had to go over and check out the used book tables on the sidewalk outside the shop. I was surprised and delighted to find a book titled Through The Children's Gate: A Home in New York--by Adam Gopnik! :D
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 13, 2023, 03:20:02 pm ---I skipped more of that issue than I read. Most of those musicians I'd never heard of. I pushed through the Ed Sheeran article, although it got into stuff about music that was totally beyond my comprehension.
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It seems Ed Sheeran played to a sold-out Empower (Mile-High) Stadium last night here. I can't understand the appeal. What rock star has the name Ed anyway? Now if it were Hauser...
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