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Downsizing, begun in the '76 model-year by GM with its Cadillac Seville and Chevrolet Chevette, has spread to most of Detroit's bigger '79 cars. Chrysler has introduced a New Yorker that looks much like the large cars of old; yet it is 800 lbs. lighter and 9 in. shorter than last year's version. GM shortened its Cadillac Eldorado by 20 in. and slashed 1,150 lbs. from its body, thus slaying, presumably for good, the last of GM's giants. The few remaining 1978 Eldorados are selling briskly to speculators who hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Dieting in Detroit | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...written a dozen novels, children's books, memoirs, and numerous short-stories, many of which have appeared in the "New Yorker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Singer Wins Nobel Literature Award For Yiddish Works | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...heart and soul of the Boston Red Sox, Carl Yastrzemski, strode into the batter's box against the Yankees' best relief pitcher, Rich Gossage. It was strength against strength, class against class; and the big New Yorker...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Yanks Nip Sox for Title, 5-4 | 10/3/1978 | See Source »

...rough shape and size of a softball. A gourmand is someone who would. Author Calvin Trillin did. His conclusion: "I've tasted worse steaks." Trillin, however, has an edge on his fellow gluttons, whom he describes as Big Hungry Boys. A peripatetic correspondent for The New Yorker for the past eleven years, he has an excuse to roam the country at will, eating, sometimes quite literally, off the fat of the land. A writer who has appetite, will travel, could hardly ask for a tastier assignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Galloping Gourmand | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...they are, indeed, impressive, and should be listed early in a profile both to point out his impressive and varied career and to get them out of the way. So here they are: upon graduation, Brackman went to work for Newsweek. That lasted about six months, after which New Yorker magazine hired him as an all-purpose writer-reviewer. He stayed until 1969, when he became Esquire's film critic. After four years of seeing more than 30 films a month--too much, even for the most dedicated cineaste--Brackman quit, in search of an entry to show business...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: The Critic On Stage | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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