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...into the office almost every day. New staffers frequently ask about the identity of the reticent 85-year-old with the soft North Carolinian accent. "A cult figure" is the usual answer. Sometimes they are referred to the dedication in a book by humorist Calvin Trillin: "To the New Yorker reporter who set the standard -- Joseph Mitchell." Hardly anyone else refers to Mitchell as a New Yorker reporter these days. After all, he has not published a word in 27 years...
This recklessness may be more common among the young, some of whom still think of their generation as immune. Others are mired in fatalism and despondency. Says Thomas, a 23-year-old New Yorker: "Soon, almost everyone I know will be HIV positive." Says his friend Jordan, 20, who is not infected: "I think I am going to have a good future -- assuming I live." New York City's Hetrick-Martin Institute, a counseling agency for young gays, reports that more than half of the 136 respondents to a survey admitted having sex without condoms. According to the U.S. Surgeon...
Like fellow cartoonists Jules Feiffer and Garry Trudeau, William Hamilton of the New Yorker plainly reckons that an eye for the absurdities of character and an ear for dialogue make him a playwright. But unlike those colleagues, he seems not to have grasped the basic dramatic principle that showing is better than telling. In his INTERIOR DECORATION, at San Diego's Old Globe Theater, a woman executive senses her biological clock ticking and fancies an even fancier executive as a sperm donor, but no more. They are introduced by their mutual interior decorators, and romantic complications ensue. Most of them...
Calling Clinton a "new captain with a new course," the New Yorker portrayed the nominee as the ultimate agent of social and economic change...
...Newhouse's bold gamble at the New Yorker...