Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most successful designers in leather is New Yorker Carol Horn, whose comfortable, stylish clothes are priced on the low end of the scale. Her suede T shirts sell for $210; her most expensive entry is a ruffled suede dress for $322. "People are taking to leather," she says, "because they're responding to something real, the way they respond to 100% wool...
...rooted, fond of hickishness, fascinated by the utter, daft strangeness of the ordinary. At 39, he lives in St. Paul, not far from where he grew up, and although he has taken note of East Coast sophistication to the extent of sending most of these pieces to The New Yorker, he is firmly in place as a gifted regional humorist...
There are several E.B. Whites, almost all of them celebrated. The Essayist's style-fine gray flannel occasionally flecked with hayseed-charmed New Yorker readers for decades. The Escapist successfully migrated from Manhattan to Maine, and lived to write about it. The Storyteller grew famous by turning the travels of a tweedy, 2-in.-tall mouse into a memorable Wanderjahr for children, loaded with longing and nostalgia...
...slight against his background when a close friend of his refused, after first agreeing to join him as a roommate for the following year. John did his share of hurting as well, turning down a rooming offer from another freshman merely because of his heritage--he was a New Yorker, and Jewish. Other attempts to enter what he though was the mainstream of college life were wasted. After starring in Morristown football, Reed decided to give freshman crew a try. Even being the last man cut didn't deter his efforts to join the crew organization--he immediately began competing...
...richest, Saul Bellow's freestyle prose reads as if a Division Street Dostoyevsky were writing a book called Thus Spake the Nobel Savage. In Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), the author's tone took a Spenglerian edge as the novel's elderly New Yorker ruminated on the decline of the West Side and, inferentially, civilization as the author knows and reveres it. Sammler had political repercussions. Bellow was accused of being aloof, insensitive and a neoconservative. He has calmly and disdainfully rejected these labels as simplistic...