Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Normally when they are deprived of baseball by the coming of fall, the most passionate fans withdraw into what The New Yorker's Roger Angell calls the Interior Stadium. In this inner game, the fan, his mind a brightly specific montage of players and plays accumulated over the years, recombines them in purely speculative fantasy: "Ruth bats against Sandy Koufax or Sam McDowell ... Hubbell pitches to Ted Williams." Angell has written about one of the mysteries of baseball's attraction: "Its vividness, the absolutely distinct inner vision we have of that hitter, that eager base runner, of however...
...impulse that continually rises to the surface, coupled with genuine comfort in mixing with all classes and races, without any feelings of personal superiority. Perhaps the most telling fact about Koch is that he is a longtime resident of Greenwich Village. A Villager is a special kind of New Yorker. Anyone who chooses to live in the Village opts for the extremes of city life ? squalor and elegance; beauty and danger; stoop ball and art show. He also indicates that he enjoys the potential anarchy of city life? an idea that appeals to more than dare admit...
...Koch's feelings about nonwhites, about blacks especially, are mixed and volatile. In 1979 Journalist Ken Auletta was researching a two-part profile of the mayor for The New Yorker. Koch gave Auletta permission to go through a series of oral memoirs that he had recorded for Columbia University in 1975 and 1976. Among Koch's statements on race was this: "I find the black community very antiSemitic. I don't care what the American Jewish Congress or the B'nai B'rith will issue by way of polls showing that the black community is not. I think that...
...Camera Age, Arlen's latest collection, is also full of meticulously well-crafted writing. Thirty pieces, all written in the last five years for the pages of the New Yorker, are here. There are essays on "Dallas," on Olympic coverage, on the most ridiculous of game shows. Arlen has extraordinary control, often just quoting dialogue verbatim; it seems all the more ridiculous in print. (A game show question asks "Which part of the contestants anatomy droops?" The husband answers "chest." His secretary answers "boobs." When the wife matches them for the grand prize, the three of them go into happy...
...course, there's something strange about reading literary television criticism at all. Somehow form and function seem skewed. When you read it in the pages of the New Yorker (which for years ran a racing column that inexplicably described the decaying Aqueduct as if it were Epsom Downs), the feeling starts hitting you even harder. One wonders--why is it there? Clearly people do not watch "Dallas" to muse over the fact our interrelationships are destabilized and smooth. On the other hand, it seems a strange intellectual game--a furious overcompensation--for one to watch a soap opera and then...