Word: yorkerism
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...when the Times took up its latest crusade against a recent article in The New Yorker magazine, they completely missed the point. Instead of reexamining the role of the press in the political process, as the New Yorker article had asked, the Times just became defensive...
...controversial New Yorker articles published last month, Malcom sharply criticized author Joe McGinniss for the methods he used to write Fatal Vision, a book about a military doctor who brutally murdered his pregnant wife and two children one night 20 years...
...considerable poise and good humor, a terrible burden. He is one of those people whose prayers were answered. Growing up a beloved only child in Shillington, a small town in southeastern Pennsylvania, he dreamed of becoming a writer, of seeing his work appear on the pages of The New Yorker. And -- presto! -- these things occurred and were then followed by unanticipated consequences: lots of money, critical recognition and fame. Worse fates have befallen people, and Updike adjusted as best he could: he cashed the checks, entertained intrusive interviewers and basked modestly in the limelight. But several years ago, his equanimity...
...Trade solicited stories about illegal trades by throwing lavish parties in their high-rise apartments and by joining the posh East Bank Club, a gym popular with commodities brokers. One agent who called himself Richard Carlson claimed that he specialized in soybean contracts and was a native New Yorker; the other, who called himself Michael McLoughlin, said he worked the Treasury- bond pit and was from Florida. "Both were nice guys, pleasant, friendly," recalls a trader. "Now that I think of it, they asked an awful lot of questions, but I thought it was just eagerness to learn...
...Bomb is traced in a masterly 13-part PBS series, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, and in a comprehensive, highly readable companion book of the same title (Knopf; $22.95). The book, published last week, is by John Newhouse, a veteran diplomatic historian who writes for The New Yorker. The TV series begins this week...