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...never tires of the great flood of paper rushing in upon him. None of the rest of us can imagine surviving the demands of such a career; Shawn flourishes." So wrote Brendan Gill a decade ago of longtime New Yorker Editor William Shawn, whose endless capacity for work and relentless curiosity helped fashion that magazine into a weekly mine of essay, fiction and humor. But last spring, after serving 35 years as editor, Shawn, 79, was ousted by the magazine's new owner, S.I. Newhouse of Conde Nast. Many thought Shawn's career was over. Not so. At the invitation...
During halftime of the third and last game that I watched, I decided to call two of my friends (Kevin and Shawn, both fellow Houstonians) to get their opinion on this new, action-packed league...
When the second half started, Shawn and Kevin were more interested in discussing why Ivan Lendl had failed to win Wimbledon for the second straight year...
Ironically, the most unflattering portrayal in the picture is not of murderer Halliwell or the perverse Orton, but of Lahr himself. Played annoyingly by Wallace Shawn, Lahr comes across as a block-headed buffoon with hardly a grasp of the events he is retelling. His interviews with Peggy Ramsay (Vanessa Redgrave), Orton's literary agent, point out the distance between artist and audience; it's as if Ramsay, representing Orton, is leading Lahr around on a string...
...pair of sophomores had personal bests, as Shawn Carew nabbed eighth-place with his javelin throw of 196-ft., and Maurice Frilot finished fifth with his 48-ft. heave in the shot...