Word: yorkerism
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...captive, only to snatch it away? This time hope was not in vain. On Sunday, kidnapers set free American hostage Robert Polhill, 55, one of three American teachers who had been seized more than three years ago from the campus of Beirut University College. Polhill, a New Yorker, was released to Syrian army officers near a seaside hotel in Beirut and then driven to Damascus, where he was handed over to U.S. Ambassador Edward Djerejian...
When Simon Wiesenthal wrote his memoirs more than 20 years ago, with considerable help from Joseph Wechsberg of the New Yorker, he had a highly dramatic story to tell: how he had emerged from an Austrian concentration camp in 1945 and devoted the rest of his life to catching Nazi criminals; how he had helped to hunt down some, like Adolf Eichmann; and how others still remained, as he titled his book, The Murderers Among...
...that the reporter is always an acquiescent pawn: manipulation is a two- way street. In a series of New Yorker articles that was recently published in book form, writer Janet Malcolm argues that the journalist's power to play God with a source's life inevitably leads to treachery. She examines the case of best-selling author Joe McGinniss, who ingratiated himself (and shared a book contract) with Jeffrey MacDonald, a physician accused of brutally murdering his wife and children. But instead of writing the exculpatory tome that MacDonald had been led to expect, McGinniss produced a work of pitiless...
...pair of chopsticks. Nothing else. One is not much helped by the otherwise useful catalog essay of Ned Rifkin, to whom, it seems, Moskowitz "revealed that the Cadillac might represent Hollywood glamour and the car culture of the West Coast, while the chopsticks could allude to a New Yorker's love of Chinese food." No kidding. This, you could say, looks like art history at the end of its rope...
Part tough New Yorker, part sunny Texan, Mary Elizabeth Smith is the daughter of a Fort Worth cotton broker. She is up-front about the face-lifting ("Only one, really") and the hair ("Ever notice how women on TV get blonder as they get older?"). A University of Texas graduate who married and divorced twice, she admits to being a "glitter kid" from way back. "Walter Winchell was my idol," she says. "I wanted to go to the Stork Club." Arriving in New York City in 1949, she learned her trade at Modern Screen, Newsweek and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...