Word: yorkerism
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...learn how to adjust to an overconcerned mother and a father in prison as well as the normal challenges of adolescence. Like his father, though, Tony Hiss says he is now a happy man. A former Crimson editor, he has been working for The New Yorker for over ten years and on the side has been putting out a magazine called The Real World...
...greater freedom-and mutual trust-than they could find on Seventh Avenue. "There's no backstabbing here," says Dennis Goldsmith, 31, a Jonathan Logan alumnus who started his highly successful Ma Chemise in Los Angeles only some 18 months ago. C.C.F.G. President Donald Cooper, 38, a native New Yorker and an owner of D.B.A. by Theodore, claims: "The goal of the guild is total mesmerization. We wanted people to jump up and down -and they...
...guild's top jumper is Harriet Selwyn, 46, a tall, vivacious New Yorker who went West five years ago, and calls California "the center of creativity." Her company, Fragments, grossed more than $1 million last year-60% of it in New York City. Her biggest hit has been the Fragments Bag, which holds seven basic separates-six of Qiana jersey-in a range of compatible colors that can be combined to make about 100 different outfits. Also in the bag: a see-through chiffon blouson top and, egad, a silver necklace with a cylinder that holds a toothbrush. From...
...Obscenity is like the concept of sin-it defies definition," he says. "If we start restricting adult reading habits by what's fit for children, we could be left with only Little Red Riding-Hood. "Says William Shawn, editor of the chaste New Yorker: "This is a very serious threat. In this instance it has to do with taste, but ultimately it has to do with what our attitudes are. In a free society nobody should be the judge...
Each of the book's 16 stories (most of which originally appeared in the New Yorker) can fly on its own. Taken together, they form both a whimsical saga of invisible dynasties and an extended commentary on Homo sapiens. Warner's elves are in many ways mirror images of men. They cannot weep and do not hate. They reproduce with difficulty but live for centuries: "Fairies are constructed for longevity, not fertility." They are governed exclusively by women-the more capricious the better...