Word: yorker
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...after all, where Pat Robertson won the 1988 straw poll. But in 2004, Karl Rove's strategy yielded 3.5 million newly registered Evangelicals nationally. Those born-again voters have been underwhelmed by the 2008 GOP front runners: a flip-flopping Mormon from Massachusetts; a pro-choice, thrice-married New Yorker; and John "Agents of Intolerance" McCain...
...Romney now has to be considered a strong favorite for the Republican nomination. Giuliani may give him a tussle-and who knows about Thompson?-but in the end, Republicans will probably prefer a squeaky-clean Mormon with a totally focus-grouped pitch to a thrice-married pro-choice New Yorker who didn't attend his son's high school graduation. And another prediction: if nominated, Romney will be formidable in the general election...
...Elephant Vanishes, 2001 This collection of short stories, many packing the kookiness of Murakami's novels into less than 20 pages, was written over six years. Several stories in the book made their first appearances in magazines such as The New Yorker and Playboy. The title piece inspired a play that toured New York and London...
...prestigious Kafka Prize, dedicated to authors whose work "addresses the readers regardless of their origin, nationality and culture." It's difficult to imagine a better recipient than Murakami, who today splits his time between Tokyo and universities in the U.S. "The first [Murakami] story I translated for The New Yorker, they asked me to put in a Japanese reference at the top," says Philip Gabriel, a professor of East Asian studies at the University of Arizona. "He was so nonspecific to Japan that readers didn't realize where he was from...
...Plenty. Both created original scripts from their experiences and obsessions. Both worked fast--at least a movie a year for most of their long careers--and relatively cheap. Both forged long relationships with their sponsoring studios. And Bergman was a strong influence on Allen's work: from his New Yorker parody of The Seventh Seal ("Death Knocks," in which the hero plays not chess with Death but gin rummy) to a cameo by the Grim Reaper in Love and Death and, more deeply, the inspiration for the theme and tone of Interiors and Another Woman. Shooting his new film...