Word: yorker
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...Clinton, Redux Though the reason Toni Morrison gives for calling Bill Clinton the "first black President" sounds very nice ("I said he was being treated like a black on the street [during the Monica Lewinsky scandal], already a perp"), Morrison should reread the article she wrote for the New Yorker to see her original reasons [May 19]. They do not in any way resemble what she says now. Clinton, she wrote in October 1998, "displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas." Morrison should...
America's first great piano virtuoso was a darkly handsome, intense young New Yorker named William Kapell. He had it all: a staggering technique, passion and an artistic instinct that pierced to the heart of every piece. In 1953 he died in a plane crash at 31. All that remained were his legend and a handful of recordings. Then in 2004 a trove of new Kapell performances surfaced, recorded at home by Australian department-store salesman Roy Preston from radio broadcasts of Kapell's final tour. A selection of those recordings is now being released in a two-disc...
...once read a study of what different cultures found funny. The author claimed that Brits love puns and the French the bizarre. Americans, however, find it funniest to mock. Author Jack Handey, a veteran writer for “Saturday Night Live” and contributor to The New Yorker, definitely fits within that American sense of humor. In his newest book, “What I’d Say to the Martians: and Other Veiled Threats,” Handey mocks all aspects of American culture, from the childhood lemonade stand to violent leaders to environmentalism.The book...
...critique it is notoriously fraught, something that was evident quickly to the standing-room only crowd in Sever Hall last night that watched novelist Jonathan Franzen face English professor James Wood, who has been one of his toughest critics. Wood, who is also a staff writer for The New Yorker, is noted for his censure of the postmodern social novel, which he termed the “contemporary American novel in its big triumphalist form” in a 2001 review of Franzen’s novel “The Corrections.” But at the event yesterday...
...original review, which had called the film “a squalid shoot-’em-up,” that “Bonnie and Clyde” got any positive press. Film critic Pauline Kael’s fervid defense of the film in The New Yorker raised her status from lauded critic to legendary cultural bellwether. By 1997, the American Film Institute was ranking it as number 27 on its first list of the 100 greatest movies of all time.While many of Benton’s subsequent films (“Kramer v. Kramer...