Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yorker Sara L. Luzarus, director of the 137th annual Hasty Pudding show, calls her upcoming affiliation with Harvard's most celebrated troupe of transvestites "every Jewish mother's dream...
...knows everybody who is anybody, also knows that Everyman can always use a little help. No matter how moving and personal, back-to-back stories of suffering, death and destruction soon grow undifferentiated and numbing. It is something of a relief when Pauline Kael, film critic for The New Yorker, knocks old American war movies as "grotesque" and "condescending," even though it is doubtful she reacted that way at her neighborhood picture palace 40 years...
...contest. Sons of famous men find the scorekeeping particularly onerous: whatever the offspring's achievements, both generations are likely to suspect that the father's glory enhanced them. That psychic battleground is toured by Michael J. Arlen, 53, a journalist, memoirist and television critic of The New Yorker, yet seemingly fated to be known always as the son of the celebrated '20s novelist Michael Arlen (The Green Hat). Say Goodbye to Sam is told in the first person, and much of its detail is so close to Arlen's life that it is tempting to read...
...Mexico to meet his father, Sam Avery, a semiretired film director with a gift for popular appeal. The son has won critical success for his magazine articles and books (which Arlen slyly depicts as exhaustive looks at narrow topics, resembling less his own work than that of his New Yorker colleague John McPhee); he is too constrained, too inward looking, to write in a way that could stir emotions and reach a mass audience. Tom believes that his happiness and security with his new wife will shield him from his father's belittling ways. But in the course...
Dear Marie: Are you nuts, picking Harvard and Pennsylvania to tie for first place in Ivy League football? Obviously Columbia has the edge on everyone, what with their brand-new stadium and being free of the feeling that with each loss they're letting John Witkowski down. --New Yorker in NoHo...