Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times, for example, there are very few signs of a world in the chips. Yet, on a given street on a given day, Rolls-Royces idle bumper to splendid bumper; the air is soaked in Bal a Versailles; diamonds go like Tic Tacs. From now to Christmas The New Yorker will be heaving with ads for crystal yaks and other lavish doodads in "limited editions," for which one assumes there must be buyers. Saks Fifth Avenue, which advertises itself as all the things we are, has recently decided that we are a 14-karat gold charge plate ($750). Of course...
...RECENT food critic himself for The New York Times, it is exactly fitting that Ray Sokolov '63 should become the chronicler of the life of the journalist's gastronome and the gastronome's journalist, A.J. Leibling. Although not nearly so imposing a figure in person as the legendary New Yorker columnist (Sokolov sports 170 lbs. tops to Liebling's lifetime high of 256 lbs.), Sokolov's meticulous research techniques--the residue of a Harvard education?--and his flowing prose more than rise to the occasion of Wayward Reporter, a biography of Liebling...
...best recent example of the Texas-international poetry confluence came in a rare Gregory Corse reading last April. Corse, originally a New Yorker but known as one of the wildest of the Fifties San Francisco Beats, joined with Kuzminsky (cursing in Russian), Clausen (singing and bellowing for all people who didn't know how to write), and Eleanor Crockett (descendant of Davy), whose magnetic subleties floated above the gut level expression of the men with whom she shared the stage...
...growth of the arts, Washington has reached a point in the past few years where only a transplanted New Yorker would remain unimpressed. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened in 1971, bringing yet more unnecessary acres of red carpeting to the city but also presenting thousands of nights of first-class opera, theater and ballet. The National Symphony is now led by Mstislav Rostropovich and is magnificent. There are other great institutions: the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian museums, the National Theater, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - all intelligently...
...last minute effort to delay their executions came only after his five votes not to hear their appeals. Sadly, even in one of the Justice's final acts - the chronicling of his life - the great storyteller has been outdone by a man he scarcely knew, and a New Yorker at that...