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--holdout
--comeback --put-down
--expense-account --adman --high-rise --measure up
2. Some terms/phrases/structures
--out-of-phase
--television generation --economy of effort
--wrong side
--sitcoms cloned and canned
--Mecca
--measure up against --Ivy League schools
--commercial Broadway/off-Broadway/off-off-Broadway --Madison Avenue/Wall Street --like seeks like --Wasps
3. Paraphrasing some sentences
4. Identifying figures of speech
5. Methods to develop the central idea of a paragraph: topic sentence
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V. Questions
1. In what fields can New York no longer be regarded as the leading American city? 2. Why do many Europeans call New York their favorite city? 3. Why did the writer go and live in New York?
4. What technique does the writer use to develop his main theme? Is the technique effective? Cite
examples.
5. Does the writer really both love and hate New York? Cite examples to back up your analysis. 6. Explain fully the following sentence from paragraph 11: ―A market for knowingness exists in
New York that doesn’t exist for knowledge.‖
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