Metropolitan Diary : The Best Selections from the New York Times Column

by Alexander, Ron; Romano, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780688148898
• ISBN10: 0688148891
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Harpercollins

Summary

Metropolitan Diary is the collection millions of fans have been waiting for - the best selections from the beloved New York Times column that has gathered together the quirks, foibles, and laugh-out-loud moments of everyday city life for the last two decades. Longime editor Ron Alexander has culled the column's archies for the most amusing vignettes, conversations, and observations heard in movie lines and on buses, in restaurants (in delis, in particular) and cocktail lounges, and on escalators. City humor has distinctly urban, sly, sassy, and feisty characters, and that's captured here in these short anecdotes sent in by everyday readers, giving the Diary its authentic and cosmopolitan feeling.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii	(4)
Acknowledgments	xi
Rising to the Occasion	1	(3)
Airborne	4	(2)
Wow (Upside Down)	6	(5)
Reel Things	11	(4)
Clip Joint	15	(5)
Floor, Please?	20	(4)
Tails of the City	24	(5)
Family Snapshots	29	(7)
When I'm Calling You	36	(5)
Screenplays	41	(4)
Turnstiles	45	(5)
Taxi!	50	(3)
Cast of Characters	53	(4)
Chutzpah	57	(8)
Winging It	65	(3)
Going Places	68	(5)
What'll It Be?	73	(4)
Whadjya Say?	77	(4)
Celebrity Sightings	81	(7)
Diary File	88	(4)
May I Help You?	92	(4)
Scenes	96	(2)
Transfer, Please	98	(4)
Weather or Not	102	(5)
Just Kidding	107	(4)
Wise Guys	111	(4)
High Neighbors	115	(3)
Growing Pains	118	(3)
Gotta Have Art	121	(3)
All Around the Town	124	(7)
Relatively Speaking	131	(3)
Getting Off, Please	134	(4)
Dining Out	138	(5)
Shop Talk	143	(4)
The Lineup	147	(5)
Sign Language	152	(6)
Grandes Dames	158	(4)
Clotheshorse	162	(6)
Seasonings	168	(9)
Seeing Stars	177	(5)
Underground Exchanges	182	(4)
Parades	186	(4)
Celebrations, Etc.	190	(4)
Modem Times	194	(4)
City Souvenirs	198	(5)
Last Words	203