Word: yorkerism
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...complaints, the difficulties constitute a diabolical maze. Nor do many doctors reach out to make things easier. Most AIDS caseworkers with deaf clients can name one who was simply handed a piece of paper saying, "You have AIDS," with no follow- up. Quanquilla Mason, a deaf and blind New Yorker who has since died, remembered going into emergency surgery. "I was afraid," recalled Mason, "and the surgeon wasn't making any effort to explain to me what he was doing, and I was asking, 'Please let my interpreter come, please let her come explain to me what you gonna...
...typewriter harrumphing with dismay. Wreszin dutifully portrays the man and his times but too often paraphrases rather than quotes directly from a writer whose style was the essence of jaunt and spark. (In fairness, Wreszin does have the good sense to cite Macdonald's lead of a New Yorker profile: "The Ford Foundation is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some...
Adam Gopnik, a writer for the New Yorker, is exactly right when he says, in an essay in the catalog, that "the theatricality of Avedon's work" is not a barrier to authenticity but rather the path to a different kind of truth, which it reaches by inventing "a set of heightened poetic conventions." Avedon has never been interested in observing the rules of straight photography, in which the most honest picture is one that has been fooled with the least. He crops and retouches; he coaxes the sitter and takes multiple shots until the subject's self-presentation matches...
...fact, he told the New Yorker that onereason he will come to Harvard in that the scopeof the University's African-American academiccommunity would allow him broader influence...
...Princeton and Harvard are both fine places,but Harvard is a larger context in which I canhave a broader intellectual impact," he told theNew Yorker...