Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Theroux and John Batke, who teach creative writing here, will read from their work on Friday. Saturday, the Yale poet and Pulitzer prize winner Alan Dugan is scheduled along with Penelope Mortimer. If Mortimer's name sounds familiar, no doubt you've got the requisite subscription to the New Yorker. It's encouraging to see a student, George Colt '76, on the last day's list of speakers, and I guess Rita Mae Brown, who's associated with a kind of lesbian consciousness, its into the subterranean theme...
Anyway, now's your chance to try figuring out what writing is all about for yourself. You could decide to trade in your New Yorker for a broadsheet. Or the part of the exhibit they call "dregs alley" might be enough to convince you to stay in the English department...
...Supreme Court upheld the conviction of New Yorker Samuel Roth, a purveyor of soft-core magazines and books, but drew...
...budgeted $2.5 billion. Only 4.6 miles have actually been opened out of a total of 99.8 miles, and the completion date for all lines is now 1982. At last Saturday's opening, thousands of Washingtonians waited up to two hours to ride the trains (left). One young New Yorker, Paula Allen, liked the Metro better than her own subway: "It's cleaner, nicer. There's no graffiti...
...Carol Horn, 39, a Coty winner last year, also covers the world-Japan, Rumania, Guatemala, India-but on a budget. A native New Yorker who had no formal fashion training, she uses offbeat fabrics that "people want to touch," and makes inexpensive multipurpose clothes such as a crinkled cotton caftan. "My ideal garment," she says, "is one I can walk around the house in, toss over a bathing suit at the beach, dress up with accessories and wear out at night." Her Habitat ready-to-wear line did $5 million retail in 1975, its first year, and is expected...