Word: yorkerism
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...seemed one of the few writers since Agee able to avoid the occasional literary pretensiousness of Eastern critics, the self-justifying defenses of Hollywood hacks, and the gassy theorizing of academics. However, especially since her third book (Going Steady) appeared in 1970, she has become an established New Yorker commodity, and increasingly self-indulgent: her responses to films are at times based solely on their generalized erotic content. She has made claims that "male actors need a little bit of fascism to make them attractive." She has been seduced by the camera wizardry of Bob Fosse and Bertolucci, and turned...
...Kael. It's clear that the glittering combination of a favorite director and Marlon Brando overcame, in her eyes, the poor acting and pretentiousness (which Kael usually hits on). The film seems to have struck her where she often seems to think: right between her legs. The orgasmic New Yorker outpouring remains, alas, far more intriguing than what the filmmakers have spewed forth...
Hoagland, a 40-year-old New Yorker with 100 unposted acres in Vermont and one of the finest prose styles in any state, thinks that people have rights to untrammeled nature in the same way they have to religious freedom. Enjoyment means some trammeling, however, and at times Hoagland seems almost apologetic that his body must accompany his senses into the wilderness. He is a "nonconsumptive" user of the forest, a man with exceptional powers of observation, reflection and appreciation. He neither hunts nor fishes but takes long solitary hikes and prefers conversing with old farmers, trappers and woodsmen "rather...
Died. Robert M. Coates, 75, short-story writer and art critic for The New Yorker for three decades (1937-67), and author of surrealistic fiction (The Eater of Darkness) who also launched a famous literary friendship in Paris when he introduced his onetime boxing partner, Ernest Hemingway, to Gertrude Stein; in Manhattan...
...Yorker New York City...