(3089/898) Times they are a-changin'

2273) No one who isn't from New York [City] knows how to be a pedestrian. Pedestrians don't mosey. And they don't walk five abreast. I'd like to make New York unsafe for tourists. Why do they come here to stand in line?

Fran Leibowitz
quoted by Bruce Weber in
"Crime Is Down. Streets Are Clean. What's a New York Comedian to Do?" in
New York Times Metro section (1/12/1997)

2274) A conventional [music] video shows a singer strutting around doing his business [...] Making techno [music] is not really that photogenic. Generally, it looks like old people eating food. It's very boring.

Nick Philip
director of the Sun Electric
"Meccano" video
quoted by Neil Strauss in
"A New Spacey Look for MTV" in
New York Times Styles section (1/19/1997)

2275) Like many men who are well read and largely self-taught, [Bruce] Springsteen is attracted to polysyllables and sometimes mispronounces them.

Nicholas Dawidoff
"The Pop Populist" in
New York Times Magazine (1/26/1997)