Word: yorkerism
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Last year's anointment of Tina Brown as editor of the New Yorker magazine reflected an attempt at repositioning meant to regain the confidence of straying advertisers. The appointment was also meant to reinvigorate a magazine which had grown indulgent and uncertain of its constituency and its style, preserved in the cultural amber...
...literary world was aghast at what the changed leadership would portend for the New Yorker. Brown was known primarily for rescuing tottering magazines; she was the chief architect of Vanity Fair's transformation into the hot book of the '80s. VF reflected that decade's zeitgeist, a dubious mix of camp and celebrity worship underlaid with thinly disguised cynicism. Tina Brown transformed it into the kind of magazine which would reside illicitly in the sock drawer of serious reader: titillating but not substantial...
...failing to agree on a single video-game standard -- a failure that kept the industry locked in the Beta-versus-VHS stage. When nobody appeared interested in building the machine of his dreams, he set out to build it himself. He kept thinking, he says, of an old New Yorker cartoon showing two vultures sitting glumly on a limb. "I'm sick and tired of waiting," one says to the other. "Let's go kill something...
Wharton was a poet of repression. Another New Yorker, Martin Scorsese, is the bard of belligerence, the ace depictor of raging bulls. What could Wharton mean to Scorsese? Everything, it turns out: his faithful adaptation of The Age of Innocence (written with Jay Cocks, a TIME contributor) is a gravely beautiful fairy tale of longing and loss...
...Yorker publishes libel defendant's massive Sylvia Plath piece...