Word: yorkerisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brendan Gill, movie critic for "The New Yorker," will speak tonight on "Hollywood Unchained." The lecture, sponsored by the Kirkland House Forum, will be at 8:15 p.m. in the Kirkland House...
...interview which appeared in the latest issue of The New Yorker, Wald discussed this discovery and other results of his recent research...
Intense Identification? Tynan had been bothered by the book before it was published (it was serialized in The New Yorker). He had expressed his disapproval to Capote when the two men met at parties and when Capote appeared on Tynan's TV program in London. He repeated his objections in his review. In Cold Blood, said Tynan, seemed callously indifferent to the fate of the criminals it scrutinized. Capote probably could have produced enough evidence to show that the two men were insane and might have saved them from hanging. But he did not bother to search...
...drawing was published in 1936 in Milan. "It took about ten minutes to draw," he remembers, "but when it was printed in the magazine, I took a very slow promenade along each line." Ever since, he has been taking millions of viewers along, mostly by means of The New Yorker, in which his drawings have appeared since...
...what they mean, Steinberg likes to leave that up to the viewer. "People who see a drawing in The New Yorker will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie, they think it's a prediction." In many ways, his message is best conveyed by his pages of elaborate, cursive script, in which the occasional images are understandable while the words are illegible. "Words are like vitamin pills," he explains. "We swallow them...