Word: yorkerism
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...with the modern art scene, he treated it as an amusing cultural phenomenon, an elaborate set of strange conventions rather than as a serious endeavor. He wrote about mass culture in America and took digs at high culture, and he was a constant target of attacks in The New Yorker. The New York Review of Books and other toney magazines...
...eventually discovered was not a secret passage but precious pentimento. Still on the walls, beneath 40 years of papering, was the doodling of Humorist James Thurber, who had lived in the house in the 1930s. There is "no question" that the art work is that of the former New Yorker writer and cartoonist. Says Helen Thurber, the humorist's widow: "He always did drawings on people's walls...
...Here at The New Yorker, Gill...
...back at Graphics 1 and Graphics 2, 168 Newbury St. in Boston. They were at the same place this time last year when I first started composing these listings. Folon is great--also very popular these days, and his stuff has gotten very expensive. I recommend salvaging his new Yorker covers rather than shelling out a substantial amount of dough for an original print...
This month's issue makes the answer very clear. The communally run Ms. editorial staff must finally have decided just who its target-group should be. If the ad of the skinny young woman in her Danskin leotard and silk skirt that also recently ran in the New Yorker doesn't give it away, the articles on how to buy a sewing machine, or on Buffy Sainte-Marie, or the photographs of Andre Malraux and Jean Cocteau will. This magazine is for the wealthy, skinny, urban woman who probably has a job as well as a husband and household...