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...AUTHOR: ALEC WILKINSON...
...bleeds, it leads" is the dictum of local television news. By now the public has grown numb to acts of savagery, and only a handful of journalists can still arouse feelings of shock or pity. New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson is one of them...
...this spirit of quasi-camaraderie that I must voice my concern over an article which appeared in the paper December 8 entitled, "Lampoon Compers Interrupt Club Even," by Alec E. Permison...
...Yale, not clapping for Harvard (and only cheering if they can't tell who you are), not rushing the field and finally hanging your head and trudging home, a la Yalie. It seems he only left out one thing: getting on their bus and going back to New Haven. Alec E. Permison...
...knowing who has taken you or for how long or, above all, why. But Irish writer Frank McGuinness finds a trove of snarky pub wit and schoolboy antics in SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME, which last week moved from London to Broadway with its deft West End cast -- Alec McCowen as a prissy English teacher, Stephen Rea as a dissolute Irish journalist and James McDaniel as a tightly wound American doctor. The roles recall the contrived ethnic jumble of old war movies. McDaniel, the most touchingly real, most underscores this falsity...