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Though the Justices all agreed that Carnal Knowledge was permissible softcore porn, they are still split on the basic strategy for dealing with obscenity. Justice William Brennan, who feels that Government would do better to abandon the field altogether, filed a brief opinion gloomily noting that the court had once again fallen back into "the mire of case-by-case determinations of obscenity." Brennan's I-told-you-so was aimed mainly at Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote the previous porn opinions that encouraged local courts and prosecutors to take off after whatever books, movies and plays seemed...
...years now, Maeve Brennan's sharp-eyed alter ego, "the Long-Winded Lady," has been posting bulletins about the city and its inhabitants in The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section. A self-styled "traveler in residence," she has always been able to turn quite ordinary things-two people looking in a store window, a small parade, a cat crouching under a parked van-into "moments of recognition." Her old-fashioned method is the unabashed use of straight description, as in A Snowy Night on West Forty-Ninth Street, the one New York story in Christmas...
...Maeve Brennan is one of those people who love New York "because the chances for being invisible are so much greater." Small and given to wearing dark glasses, she spends much of her time looking and listening, with only an open book for camouflage: "Nobody has ever noticed that I never turned the page." She keeps her observations in a large calendar book: "If you're writing about people in the street, you have to describe their clothes, all of them. Clothes tell...
...days," Brennan recalls, "I would get up at 6 a.m. no matter what. Now you can't walk around at 6. At 7 it's safe. But you can see the 6 a.m. people still up." She lives alone in a midtown hotel on West 44th Street-"just opposite the Algonquin" and only a few steps away from The New Yorker -and she has a canny, survivor's eye for a bargain. "The coffee at Bickford's is only 16?," she will say, "but they rob you at Childs." She broods on the differences between Woolworth...
...Maeve Brennan came from Dublin to America with her family in 1934, when she was 17. She has lived here ever since. She worked at first for Harper's Bazaar, but in the 1940s her work caught the eye of New Yorker Editor William Shawn, who encouraged her to do the Long-Winded Lady pieces and stories as well. Her seven-year marriage to Fellow New Yorker Writer St. Clair McKelway ended in divorce...