Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frazier, 36, is an employee of The New Yorker, where during the past eleven years he has written occasional humor (Dating Your Mom, a collection, appeared last year) and factual stories, including the five pieces gathered together in Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody. On the surface, it would appear that Frazier does not exactly knock himself out with work. In fact, he confirms this impression, openly admitting to lallygagging on the job. In the first sentence of "An Angler at Heart," he confesses that he has often "taken a walk from the offices of The New Yorker along Forty-third...
...course. "If you feel sick, you can't just pet your dog and call the doctor in the morning," says Veterinarian Larry Glickman of the University of Pennsylvania. Moreover, they require care, can bite and cause allergies. But what they bring can be hard to improve on. New Yorker Reuben Selnick, 61, a recovering alcoholic who adopted a cat named Oliver in Purina's pilot program, speaks for many. "I was at a very low ebb when I met Oliver," he says. "Now I have something to live...
However, Vendler, poetry critic for the New Yorker and the editor of the "Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry," said, "There is no bias against ethnic poetry" as long as it is good...
Mario Cuomo hovers on the edge of acceptability. The Governor needs a little feathering on the sides and in the rear so he does not look quite so much like a provincial New Yorker. After all, he is running to be President of all the people, not just Queens. Howard Baker has a fine haircut for a Vice President, Milt insists, which is Milt's way of suggesting he come around for a trim...
...story that ran on February *** 1987 about the New Yorker magazine misidentified Charles McGrath. He is managing editor for fiction. That same article also misspelled the names of George W.S. Trow '65 and Hendrik Hertzberg...