Word: yorkerism
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...throw off your chains. This weekend at the Science Center the University Film Study Center is projecting fifteen of the world's finest short animated films, selected in part from winners of international festivals. The styles range from New Yorker-cartoon-like line drawings to color swirls and slashes reminiscent of Kandinsky, from sequenced photographs of porcelain dolls to images like amoebas in a microscopic slide. Mostly, though, they transmit undiluted visual delight...
...counties; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Schoonmaker dropped out of Princeton University in 1923 because he felt it had little to teach him, and on a visit to France began his study of vintages in the household of a wine merchant. In 1933, Harold Ross of The New Yorker commissioned Schoonmaker to write a landmark ten-article series on the wines of Europe that started him on his career as one of the nation's premier wine critics. Later Schoonmaker became a consultant to leading American vintners and went into the wine business himself. His books include Frank...
Founded in the 1820s by a New Yorker named Joseph Smith, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is now centered in Utah where Smith's followers moved after being chased out of Midwestern towns they had tried to settle in. A fundamentalist religion, it places heavy emphasis on the Bible, but also gives equal power to the Book of Mormon, which church doctrine says is Smith's translation of golden tablets he found under the guidance of a holy messenger. The book tells the story of ancient inhabitants of America descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel...
...Grooms, 38, was born in Nashville; Gross, 35, is a New Yorker born and bred. Both share an obsession with great eccentric architecture and spectacles-Gaudi's Art Nouveau buildings in Barcelona, the park of monstrous 16th century carvings near Bomarzo in Italy. They are also fascinated by "naive" and "primitive" structures like the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, by puppets, facsimiles and toys. Their studio loft in Manhattan's Little Italy is crammed with antique clockwork toys and fragments of gaudy Sicilian carts. (They once traveled together in a horse-drawn wagon from Florence to Venice, giving...
...Horses, Niven (1) 3-Angels, Graham (7) 4-Sylvia Porter's Money Book, Porter (3) 5-The People 's Almanac, Wallechinsky & Wallace (4) 6-The Ascent of Man, Bronowski 7-Memoirs, Williams (6) 8 -Life Goes to the Movies 9-My Life, Meir(10) 10-The New Yorker Album of Drawings...