Word: wolcott
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mogadishu street where Cliff Wolcott died on Oct. 3 last year doesn't even have a name. For Wolcott, one of 15 helicopter pilots who took part in the ill-fated operation aimed at capturing warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, luck ran out when he spotted several armed Somalis firing rocket-propelled grenades at his Black Hawk attack helicopter. Turning the craft broadside to give his gunners a bet- ter shot, Wolcott became a perfect target. A grenade exploded into the side of the chopper. "Super six-one is going down," he yelled into his headset, "Six-one is going...
...admirable attempt to globalize theater coverage, Brown secured the services of John Lahr. She also added television commentary by James Wolcott, made Richard Avedon the official photographer and inserted Anthony Lake as the primary movie critic. These appointments have certainly brought interesting voices to the New Yorker. But they cannot compensate for what has been lost...
...True, there is James Wolcott's ghastly hype-hop prose: ' "Going to Extremes" . . . mentholates the senses like a Club Med ad.' Plus some slipshod editing: two Dan Quayle 'potatoe' jokes. But broken columns, boxed poems and spots of color and photographs enhance rather than vulgarize. Pieces are shorter than before but cut deeper -- especially 'News from Hell,' concerning the events in Sarajevo by new contributor Anna Husarska. Yet tradition has not been entirely scrapped: see Roger Angell's valedictory to Fay Vincent, recently decapitated commissioner of baseball. Miraculously, after a long arid spell the cartoons are funny again -- particularly those...
EDGE (PBS, Nov. 6 and 10 on most stations). PBS's new monthly magazine series on pop culture, with host Robert Krulwich, enlivens some familiar topics (Grateful Dead fanatics, Norman Mailer's new novel) with personal points of view from such contributors as Buck Henry and critic James Wolcott...