Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hamlisch has lived in Hollywood for the past two years, but he remains an unreconstructed New Yorker. Working at home on a rented moviola (a hand-operated viewer on which a film can be studied frame by frame), he even keeps the curtains drawn to thwart the distracting California sunshine. "Look at me," he says proudly, "I'm as pale as a Long Islander in February." He likes to tell about his own case of inflated Hollywooditis after the awards. "I thought," he says, snapping his fingers in fandango-like recall, " 'Baby, you are the real goods-Cole...
Died. Alan Dunn, 73, who twitted life's little absurdities in nearly 2,000 New Yorker magazine cartoons over 47 years; in Manhattan. A self-styled recluse, he was dubbed by The New Yorker's waggish editor, Harold Ross, a "hermit around town...
...honorable mentions were awarded. This year's judges were Roger Angell of The New Yorker; Hugh Sidey of Time magazine; and Carolyn Kizer, a poet...
...completely different way, Saul Steinberg delves into our subconscious at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St. in Boston. His cartoons in the New Yorker have geometrically-formed people marching across landscapes of plotted-out rectangles and thinking of endless variations on the number "5" or other problems of the human condition. Through June...
Conrack opened in New York a month ago. It received two pre-reviews. The New Yorker's Pauline Kael praised the freshness of the story: a young South Carolinian goes to isolated Yamacraw Island to teach illiterate black children. Kael loved the lustiness and poetic charm of the hero, Pat Conroy (known to his students as Conrack), who overcomes reactionary school officials and intransigent students and parents to give his class a sense of the world beyond Yamacraw--before he is fired. She dunned some of the film's simplifications but saluted its spirit. Stanley Kauffman in The New Republic...