Word: yorkerism
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...game, clarifying issues by talking them to death. The current fracas is the biggest since the obscenity debate over Robert Mapplethorpe's photography. It pits one of the country's most brilliant and respected critics against one of its most daring and respected choreographers. Arlene Croce is the New Yorker's dance reviewer; no American arts critic is more admired-or more feared. Bill T. Jones is a modern-dance choreographer; handsome and outspoken, he has always drawn extreme love-him-or-hate-him reactions...
...High Road to Taos, Edmunds's first collection, was chosen by poet Donald Hall as a 1993 National Poetry Series winner. His poems have previously appeared in The New Yorker, Southwest Review and anthologies of young poets...
...Family by Ian Frazier (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The author, first visible as a New Yorker humorist, then as an observer in Great Plains, an elegiac portrait of the American heartland, turns reflective and inward in this long, moody rummage in time's attic. He began to gather material about his near and distant family after the death of his parents, searching, he says, for the meaning of life, for "a meaning that would defeat death." The journey -- perhaps more correctly his obsession -- began in 1987. Collecting family papers, dating as far back as 1855, he filed them in two boxes...
Then again, as a New Yorker and a football fan, I have to give the credit to Bill Parcells--i.e., the great Giants coach. Drew Bledsoc is also a big reason, but the brains up in Foxboro have done a great job of getting good players and sticking with them, even through the tough times...
...primaries in 1988, as did Donald Rumsfeld, Gerald Ford's Secretary of Defense; and Congresswoman Pat Schroeder was an undeclared candidate in 1988. Given this pattern of presidential ambition among the '74 selectees, we should not be surprised if Robert Gottlieb, the former editor of the New Yorker, or Saul Steinberg, the onetime greenmail virtuoso, begins showing up at lunch counters in New Hampshire next year, chatting with the citizenry...