Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...luge and bobsled seem to attract the largest number of Olympic eccentrics, many of whom have found the open-minded governing bylaw about nationality conveniently accommodating. For New Yorker George Tucker, a physicist born in Puerto Rico, Calgary actually offered a chance to improve. At his Sarajevo debut in 1984, Tucker shed alarming amounts of skin bouncing off the wall. "I was the luger who dripped blood," Tucker says. The next ( summer he recruited Muniz, who had schemed to represent Puerto Rico as a kayaker. "Misery loves company," explains Muniz. Argentine Ruben Gonzalez, a chemist, claims yet another distinction...
...couldn't help thinking two thoughts. First, was he right? Is it so ethically suspect to be an American? And second, what does it mean that my values were being torn from the ground by a man who had only recently been the defender of a New Yorker's, if not an American's way of life...
...humor-column dodge, but don't quit your job at the shoe factory till the check clears. Still interested? Try completing the column from this collection that begins "I've been wondering for a long time where all the chicken a la king went." Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker writer and syndicated columnist (weekly in 200 newspapers), handed himself this chiller a couple of years ago. Clearly he had used up all his easy material about Ronald Reagan and how everyone hates mimes. He had to throw in every surefire giggle from Nehru jackets to the way rich people talk...
Michael J. Arlen '52, a writer for The New Yorker magazine, declared after considerable thought, "I think Harvard will probably win based on their greater capacity for abstract thought and superior personal hygiene, unless, of course, The Game is played indoors on ice, in which case any good Canadian team is bound to triumph...
Harold Brodkey '51, a colleague of Arlen's at The New Yorker, said that Harvard will win because "everybody knows that Harvard always wins...