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DIED. BRENDAN GILL, 83, urbane man of letters; in the city he campaigned to preserve, New York. A generalist of wide-ranging talents, Gill began and ended his career at the New Yorker, alternating as a columnist and critic--of architecture and just about everything else. He wrote poetry, novels (The Trouble of One House), plays (La Belle), biographies (of Cole Porter and Frank Lloyd Wright) and even a best seller: Here at "The New Yorker...
...alike as the great equalizer, providing all people everywhere with access to the same knowledge, this laudable--if lofty--vision of the Internet begs serious consideration of the laws of access and privacy on the Web. A smart and pointed cartoon in the Dec. 15 issue of The New Yorker takes a stab at the anonymity and freedom of the Internet. The cartoon depicts a big dog who sits at a desk in front of a computer telling a smaller dog: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." On the Internet, nobody knows...
...Legends of the American Desert (Knopf) Alex Shoumatoff, a New Yorker contributor, spent 25 years researching and writing this book about the U.S. Southwest. The result is a sometimes bewildering but continually fascinating profusion of stories and themes. Shoumatoff writes knowingly and affectionately about indigenous Indians and those who came later. The scenery is spectacular, and there is nothing dry or dusty in this desert...
...affable New Yorker whose Jewish family lived in Harlem, the Bronx and Queens before moving to Florida when he was a teenager, Wildhorn, 39, didn't discover music until he was 15, when he started noodling on the family organ in between football practices. While a student at the University of Southern California, he started writing Jekyll & Hyde with a classmate; an album of songs from the show was released in 1990, and shortly thereafter it was staged at Houston's Alley Theatre. The musical then sat unproduced for several years while its songs worked their way into...
...Mallory, there is a Leona Helmsley. Thanks to the persistent pleas of nine-year-old New Yorker Mallory Blair Greitzer, the Empire State Building's overseer has agreed to bathe the skyscraper in blue and white on Dec. 23 to mark the first night of Hanukkah. The usual red and green that adorn the spire during the Christmas season will return the next evening...