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What would have otherwise been a quaint entry into Kobritz’s personal diary, however, found its way into the widely read “Talk of the Town” section of the The New Yorker. Though Kobritz’s response was intended as a witty retort to the aging president’s playful advances, she fears that it seemed less than innocent as recounted in the pages of The New Yorker. “I’m worried I came across as a tart,” says Kobritz. Kobritz’s image...
...three years, Sternberg has been working on a new test to augment the SAT, one that asks students to write captions for New Yorker cartoons, dictate stories into tape recorders and persuade friends to help haul a bulky mattress up a flight of stairs. These unorthodox tasks are designed to measure the creative and practical skills that Sternberg says are crucial to success in college and in life but are ignored by the typical pencil-and-paper exam. If Sternberg succeeds in quantifying these types of intelligence--and linking them to concrete accomplishments--his efforts may change forever...
...Yorker is attacked by the tiger he keeps as a pet in his Harlem apartment. Animal trainer and illusionist Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy is mauled onstage. Back in 1981 in a cover story CATS: LOVE 'EM! HATE 'EM! TIME warned that these furry felines may look placid but are hardly tame...
...Yorker by birth and a poet for the last 30 years, Revell is the author of seven previous collections of poetry, including Erasures in 1992 and Arcady in 2002. A recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundations, he currently lives with his wife and son in Las Vegas, commuting to Salt Lake City to teach...
...York Times column, Frank Rich ’71 said the actor’s “pre-emptive strategy is to portray contemporary Jews as crucifying Mel Gibson.” Gibson, in a now infamous New Yorker piece, said of Rich, “I want to kill him. I want his intestines on a stick…I want to kill...