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...
...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...
...World Trade Center and the Federal Reserve building, finally arriving at my job in the city's financial district. So I was amazed to read that the government has allotted $61 a person to make the prairies of Wyoming safe from terrorists and less than $25 for each New Yorker. KEVIN MCNAMEE Irvington...
...other guitar-toting guys don't? Most obviously, Kweller has a tale of woe. In 1996, when he was just 15, his garage band, Radish, was signed by Nirvana guru Danny Goldberg to a major-label deal and was subsequently profiled at Proustian length in the New Yorker. The album that came out of the experience, Restraining Bolt, wasn't bad, but Kweller could not have marshaled more jealous cultural forces against him had he been handed a MacArthur genius grant at graduation. There were cheers when the album tanked...
...should ship their own jobs abroad," wrote a Vermonter. "The savings would be much greater than a mere computer programmer's salary." A Utah reader warned that "the big shots don't realize it, but their own jobs are in jeopardy and will be leaving soon." And a New Yorker saw a deficit-reduction bonanza: "Americans could save billions if we outsourced our Federal Government! Certainly there must be citizens of India who would be glad to act as our legislators for a fraction of what we are paying U.S. politicians...