Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel like I'm watching a car accident," said John Egan, 24, a New Yorker waiting to get into the visitor's gallery...
...SUGAR by Alec Wilkinson (Knopf; $18.95). Every winter roughly 10,000 West Indian men come to harvest sugarcane by hand in South Florida. The author, a staff writer for the New Yorker, decided to see how these migrants earn their pay and came back with a story more bitter than sweet...
...Sugar, subtitled Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida. Forget the comparative dangers of cutting sugarcane. Wonder instead why roughly 10,000 West Indian men, chiefly Jamaicans, come to South Florida each winter to do it. That is what Alec Wilkinson, a staff writer for The New Yorker, did when he came across this information in a 1984 newspaper story. Other questions aroused Wilkinson's interest as a reporter. Among them: Is it not odd that a major domestic cash crop should be so heavily dependent on imported black labor? What is going on down there? For the next four...
Last March, as Masson's suit was pending, Malcolm sparked a debate about press ethics with a New Yorker article that began, "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse." Although she focused on a ruptured relationship between author Joe McGinniss (Fatal Vision) and his subject, murderer Jeffrey MacDonald, many readers assumed that Malcolm was writing confessionally, if unknowingly...
...Viet Nam? Again. At this late date. In the case of Casualties of War, there can be only one answer: for further diagnostic tests on the national conscience. For the story it tells, based on an incident first reported in The New Yorker by Daniel Lang two decades ago, is too brutally horrific to contemplate unless some moral edification can be derived from it, some guide to the larger enigmas of human conduct...