Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these people are larger-than-life Jimmy Stewarts in a Frank Capra piece; rather, they are obscure citizens who felt slighted on their home patch and sought redress. As subjects, they are what crusty journalists of another age called the "little people." Forty years ago, Joseph Mitchell, the New Yorker writer, bridled at this condescension: "They are as big as you are, whoever you are." With that in mind, herewith the cases of the guitarist, Carew-Reid; the student, Cat Nguyen; and the entrepreneur, Edward Lawson...
...wanted to write magazine articles, he said, fact pieces, probably for The New Yorker, which has published his work over the past two decades. Fact pieces about what? "Well," said Keillor, "I could get away with one Innocent Abroad piece, but only one." Really? Not a series of Letters from Denmark extending into the next century...
...introducing Goetz's distorted perception of New York City into the courthouse they accepted the racially-clouded judgment of a terrified New Yorker, and dignified it as if it were law. Is riding the subway really a psychological drama, where a person when threatened is able to act on his fears with a gun, and be absolved...
Harvard has been no exception. One of the few bright spots in Harvard's otherwise undistinguished English department is its creative writing courses, which have been taught for the past few years by Mary Robison, a frequent contributor of short stories to The New Yorker, and Christopher Leland, a novelist. Leland's new novel, Mrs. Randall, is proof positive that the man can do, as well as teach...
...knowing what was going on, just sitting there with the TV, lost." It is an 18-ft. by 27-ft. room -- in all, enough lint to fill a U-Haul van, ceiling to floor, which it does. It is like one of those Koren cartoons in The New Yorker -- everything and everybody is fuzzy -- except it is not at all funny...