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...word -- but a Yiddish word and a New York word are the same thing. It's true that you can detect an Italian bounce to some New York phrases, and it's true that white students at expensive Manhattan private schools are as likely as Harlem teenagers to shout "Yo!" when they come across a friend, but I think the basic structure and inflection of the language New Yorkers speak owe their greatest debt to Yiddish. The only purely New York word I can think of -- cockamamie -- sounds Yiddish, even thought it isn't. It means ridiculous or harebrained...
...Yo man, you're in my seat," Dattner said Wahlberg told...
CRIMSON editor Benjamin Dattner '92 described the scene: He was relaxing on a Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta when Wahlberg accosted him. "Yo, man, you're in my seat," Wahlberg growled. When Dattner asked to see his ticket, Wahlberg rammed his fingers into Dattner's eyes, scratching his cornea. Then Wahlberg's bodyguards pinned Dattner to his seat while Donnie whaled away. The New Kids and their attorneys have yet to challenge Dattner's story...
...character serves up surprisingly deadpan humor that doubles as comic relief in the movie's otherwise heavy atmosphere. Discounting as evidence a facetious admittal of the crime--Sabich's "Yeah, you're right"--Lyttle says, "If Mr. Sabich had come from my part of town, he'd have said, 'Yo mama.'" The wit, which is omnipresent with constant references to Della Guardia as "Mr. Dee Lay Guardia," add complexity to his character of an otherwise tough-nosed "Judge Motherfucker," as one ex-con who previously bribed him describes...
...looking for something a little lighter than ice cream's caloric richness, try one of the Square's many frozen yogurt shops. In the last few years, three stores exclusively devoted to fro-yo have sprung up in the square, and many of the ice cream shops also offer "gourmet" frozen yogurt...