Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months earlier it had begun to bomb North Vietnam, and a few months later it was to stumble reeling into Watts; but for one illusory moment history seemed to neither ebb nor flow. So the nation could afford to pause, pause to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the New Yorker...
...Instead, it published a two-art article by a young journalist with the pleasantly déjà-vu name of Tom Wolfe. The article was entitled "Tiny Mummies: The True Story of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead." And, as they say back in the New Yorker's 43rd Street office, it became the talk of the town...
Which is to say, Wolfe, by attacking all that was good and holy in America--and, at the time, little but the New Yorker was--had become something of an enfant terrible who seemd to be puckishly plucking away at the nation's G-string. For besides needling the New Yorker, Wolfe was also a satorial scandal. In mid-winter he wore white suits, in summer, bright orange--all in a definitely pre-Krackerjackian era. And the people he wrote about! People like Baby Jane Holzer, Murray the K, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Junior Johnson--the very inhabitants of Confidential...
Natural Afro. Naomi's model success, if not matched, is at least approximated by half a dozen other Negro mannequins. Charlene Dash, a willowy, 5-ft. 9-in. New Yorker, got her big break with a two-page spread in Vogue last January, since then has appeared in Look and filmed a Noxzema commercial that alone earns her $178 a week in residuals. Jolie Jones, green-eyed cafe au lait daughter of Jazzman Quincy Jones, this month appeared simultaneously on the covers of Mademoiselle and Coed. Carmen Bradshaw, who accentuates her dark beauty with even darker makeup...
...that all of its citizens would recognize (going broke on $80,000 a year is still a very special disaster). And the magazine's critics still point to its smug, In-crowd perspective. "New York," says Freelance Writer Leopold Tyrmand, "is to inflatable plastic furniture what the New Yorker is to Chippendale...