Word: yorkerism
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...colleagues by and large have defended him." My way of dismissing him was to write about him in 1966 as "the most exciting American actor on the screen." to vote for him as best actor of 1967 for Reflections in a Golden Eye. to review him in The New Yorker. Feb. 10. 1968. as "our greatest actor," and, again. March 8. 1969, as "our great original." and so on, up to the Oct. 28. 1972 issue (Last Tango): "His full art is realized." If the author of your cover story was trying to make a rhetorical point that required...
Amoral Charm. The U.S. distributor, United Artists, has allowed only one carefully timed public screening in the States-on the final night of the New York Film Festival in October. "That date," wrote Critic Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, "should become a landmark in movie history comparable to May 29, 1913-the night Le Sacre du Printemps was first performed-in music history. [Tango has] altered the face of an art form. This is a movie people will be arguing about for as long as there are movies." United Artists recently reprinted the whole of Kael's extraordinary...
...relations between Washington and New Delhi, many Indians look to New York rather than London as the exciting city to visit, or for study or work. They are more impressed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology than they are by the London School of Economics, they read The New Yorker instead of Punch, and collect original recordings of Broadway musicals...
...touch with Germaine Greer-if only with a ten-foot pole." In the first column, Lawyer Peter Friedman tells how his circle benefits from the presence of insect parts in food: "Instead of complaining, we're collecting the fragments and painstakingly assembling them into whole insects." New Yorker Writer Garrison Keillor parodies speed-reading courses and concludes: "You are now able to read at the amazing rate of 8,000 words per minute, which means that you should have finished reading this already." Which would be a blessed gift for those who have to read a lot of Associated...
...anxious, was so grateful when things turned out well that he responded to the doctor's bill for $82 with a payment of $100. The Hudson River, Hyde Park, Democratic Roosevelts-as opposed to the Long Island Republican Roosevelts-were of course friends of that fellow New Yorker in the White House, Grover Cleveland. They sent a Dutch antique clock on the occasion of his marriage, and later, when their $100 baby was five, James and Sara took him to the White House to meet the Chief Executive. Cleveland, having his troubles, said to Franklin: "Little...