Word: floater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sorts. Hired by TIME as a correspondent in 1960, he spent a year in Atlanta, then moved to New York City, where he worked in several sections before writing about national affairs. He left TIME in 1963 to join The New Yorker. In 1980 Trillin published the novel Floater, which depicts the journalistic misadventures of Fred Becker, a newsmagazine writer who "floats" from section to section. Among the book's characters are Doc Kennedy, a medicine writer who keeps coming down with the ailments that he writes about, and Woody Fenton, a managing editor who communicates mainly with phrases like...
...didn't write it as an expose," Trillin says with a chuckle. "I actually liked being a floater." Naturally, the experience of working for TIME has evolved since Trillin last did it 25 years ago. "The magazine is much more open in terms of the writing now," he says. "The idea of using an outside writer like me to do a piece was unheard of back then." Still, Trillin learned that even at TIME, some things never change. Says he: "Even after all these years, writing for TIME made me feel as if I'd floated into the Essay section...
...When I got to Eliot House my room was terrible. It was way too small. I came to Eliot with one other person, and I had expected at worse another floater, and they put four of us in what was basically a double," says Robinson, who now lives in a single. "The extra space is more important to me than the extra three minutes of walking," she adds...
...DINOSAUR had been living in our suite for a week before I finally spoke to him. Our floater, a Cambridge skateboard punk--now withdrawn from Harvard to his native streets--had let the psuedo-prehistoric monster in and then disappeared home, leaving us trying desperately to ignore the spiky invader...
Eyeing his six foot, slamdance hardened frame, I modified my greeting. "So how come you've been living in our suite?" Swarming beer cans, skateboard parts, mangled hardcore tapes and ever-increasing mossy foliage were all part of the natural habitat the Dinosaur had erected around himself in our floater's room...