Word: yorkers
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...evident just from the look on his face," observes The New Yorker in a recent reflection on the Lincoln Memorial, "[Lincoln] would have liked to live out a long life surrounded by old friends and good food." Good food? New Yorker readers have an interest in successful soufflés, but it is hard to recall the most melancholy and spiritual of Presidents giving them much thought. New Yorker editors no doubt dream of living out their days grazing in gourmet pastures. But did Lincoln really long to retire to a table...
...Family; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. A promising starlet whose supporting performance as a love-starved beatnik in The Bachelor Party (1957) was nominated for an Oscar, Jones left the movies in 1964 to star for two years in the TV sitcom based on Charles Addams' offbeat New Yorker cartoons...
...FAINT UNEASINESS hangs over all Frederick Barthelme's short stories, a subtle, inescapable sense of skewed perspective Even reading snippets of his work at several-month intervals--the way most of it appeared in The New Yorker and Esquire--one detects the same imbalance over and over, a sort of ripple in the meticulous mirror-glass which the author holds up to picayune suburbia. Not that the impression dominates. Caught up in the smooth flow of Barthelme's prose, this reader has often dismissed it as a paranoid mirage. But now 17 of Barthelme's stories have been gathered into...
...sequiturs. Plot grows so complicated that it seems easier to tell than summarize. But De Vries is only half kidding. The fine cutting edge of his comic vision comes, as always, from the sense that there is hell to pay. The author, a resident staffer at The New Yorker, was raised a Dutch Calvinist, and he is a past master at striking antithetical poses. He is at once the liberal humanist, tolerantly condoning free expression and yearnings of the flesh; he is also the hooded inquisitor, meting out appropriate punishment whenever anyone tries to have a little...
After correctly disposing of the "emergency" which MX is supposed to solve though the Commission still wanted the giant ICBM. Even as the original problem vanished. The New Yorker wrote, "its solution the missile--endured." The reason must be seen as primarily political. The President created the commission to find a basing made for MX the fact that in the process the experts invalidated much of the purpose for MX, and found a better solution for the "problem" anyway, doesn't seem to have hungered them or Congress. To ensure attention for the rent of the report, including...