Word: shawne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hornsby has apparently discovered the obvious advantages of collaboration. For the first time, he makes extensive use of backup singers, with Harvard Square-favorite Shawn Colvin (who opened Suzanne Vega's now infamous Harvard show) making frequent appearances. And the subdued twang of Jerry Garcia's guitar riffs are hard to miss on songs like the first single, "Across the River...
What most sets people on edge about Si Newhouse is not his demand for profit or his wielding of authority but the coarse and sometimes brutal fashion in which he imposes his will. In 1987 he dumped William Shawn, editor of the New Yorker since 1952, barely a year after describing Shawn as one of the three most influential men in his life. Having been widely lambasted for letting Grace Mirabella learn of her 1988 ouster from Vogue through a TV report by gossip columnist Liz Smith, Si diligently informed Anthea Disney in person last year that she was through...
Ideally, an emblematic passage would provide the unambiguous evidence of awfulness. Alther's opening three words ("An ivory BMW") and her initial description of her middle-aged, open-married Manhattan heroine ("Clea Shawn was a sophisticated woman . . . she'd been in love so often that her heart felt like a sponge mop") are certainly warning signs. So is Alther's early summary of the passions that bind two women "Elke felt like a pile of nails being pulled to pieces by a magnet residing inside Clea." But such maladroit introductory passages could be dismissed as the ironic setup...
Harvard sophomore Ron Mitchell was named to the All-Ivy Second Team, joined by Princeton senior Matt Lapin, Yale sophomore Ed Petersen, Penn senior Jerry Simon and Cornell sophomore Shawn Maharaj...
...Shawn Maharaj...