Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yorker humorist Ian Frazier is the latest to light out, looking for locals with twangy accents, and it's still a fine, fresh idea. There is plenty of West to go around, it turns out. Frazier pokes about in the Plains states, to the east of the Rockies, letting his own mild adventures and rummagings in small-town museums drift into recollections of the old days. "Indians thought the white men's custom of shaking hands was comical," he reports, enchanted by this odd information. "Sometimes two Indians would approach each other, shake hands, and then fall on the ground...
...when the Times took up its latest crusade against a recent article in The New Yorker magazine, they completely missed the point. Instead of reexamining the role of the press in the political process, as the New Yorker article had asked, the Times just became defensive...
After the suit failed, Malcom, who had initially worked with McGinniss on the project, took up the fight with two lengthy articles in the New Yorker magazine last month. Malcom said McGinniss had deceived MacDonald, and was bound ethically, if not legally, not to use the information...
...controversial New Yorker articles published last month, Malcom sharply criticized author Joe McGinniss for the methods he used to write Fatal Vision, a book about a military doctor who brutally murdered his pregnant wife and two children one night 20 years...
Finally, Monday's Times included an op-ed piece written by McGinniss himself, which also missed the major issues the New Yorker piece raised...