Word: yorkers
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McGinnis's idea is not totally original; the New Yorker's John McPhee, perhaps the most highly-praised non-fiction writer in America, travelled above the Arctic circle to find the subject matter for Coming Into the Country, his account of the Alaskan wilderness. There have been others, but McPhee was the most notable. His account was of the wild North and the wild people who lived there, full of mines and surveyors and lumberjacks and fishermen and bears...
...Lewis Thomas, 66, whose humane writings on biology and medicine in the pages of the New England Journal of Medicine became the basis for two bestsellers (The Lives of a Cell, The Medusa and the Snail). Others include Physicists Jeremy Bernstein, 50, a regular contributor to The New Yorker; Robert Jastrow, 55, head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies; and Princeton's Gerard O'Neill, 53, the leading apostle of space colonization. There is also the British physician Jonathan Miller, whose medical series The Body in Question is running on PBS and is the basis of a current book...
...Hall, Woody Allen created a film for anyone who calls the New York metropolitan area "home." With Manhattan, he recreated a hilariously familiar world for those who call that stubborn borough's East Side "home." But with Stardust Memories, he has made a film for that lone neurotic New Yorker who calls Woody Allen's apartment "home." It is cold, uninviting and spiteful, a brooding flipside to Fellini's 8 1/2, a masturbating-cousin to Fosse's All That Jazz. It is autobiographical, as all his films have been autobiographical, but Stardust Memories is repulsively self-conscious, full of loathing...
Javits undoubtedly has an outstanding record in the Senate; Ralph Nader's survey of congressional aides pinpointed the New Yorker as the Senate's brightest, and second most influential, member. The ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Javits was responsible for shepherding the complicated 1973 War Powers Act through Congress...
Lummis, who favors Brooks Bros, suits and Dunhill Montecruz cigars, lives in a three-bedroom condo in the fashionable Spanish Oaks section of Las Vegas. He drives his own 1975 Chrysler New Yorker. He often lunches alone, reading a newspaper at the Desert Inn and Country Club or in the coffee shop of the Sands Hotel, which Summa owns. His $225,000-a-year income derives from his position as court-approved administrator of the Hughes estate. Lummis has no plans to expand Summa into new fields, seeing his job as one of pulling the company together. Said he last...