Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hamilton's first attempt at drama, but he had been writing snappy dialogue for 15 years as a cartoonist for The New Yorker. Though he lived in San Francisco part of that time, he tOOk aim at the Upwardly mobile everywhere, those who flit from trend to shining trend. Grand Central, like his cartoons, was supposed to be pointed and sophisticated, a Private Lives of the '70s. "Cartoons are very much like plays," he says. "A whole way of life is revealed in one sentence. In a play you just move this through time...
...bones, simple springs for muscles and a fluid shock absorber for tendons. When the same surface they designed from their model was put down in Madison Square Garden, records fell and McMahon and Greene found themselves sought after by the unlikely technical journals, Sports Illustrated and The New Yorker, for cover stories...
...lady from Dubuque enters only when that overflowing cupboard has been emptied, after the guests have left and Jo and Sam have gone upstairs to bed. Her title is derived from Harold Ross's famous statement that he was not editing The New Yorker for "the little old lady in Dubuque." Albee uses it ironically, and his mysterious lady, played with ultimate sophistication by Irene Worth, is a figure of commanding presence. Coming down the next morning, Sam discovers that she and her black male companion (Earle Hyman) have taken charge, emptying ashtrays and removing glasses...
...times change. When he was starting up The New Yorker in 1925, Editor Harold Ross declared in his prospectus that his magazine would be much too sophisticated for "the old lady in Dubuque." If that instantly famous putdown ever had any accuracy, it surely does not now. Dubuque (pop. 65,000) has a lady mayor. And at 44, she is neither old nor unworldly-even though her honor, Carolyn Farrell, is a nun of the Sisters of Charity. Dean of continuing education at Dubuque's Clarke College, Farrell (she prefers not to be called "sister...
...more recent books, The Wild Boys and Exterminator!, brought Burroughs closer to the literary mainstream--one might say of Exterminator!, as Burroughs said of In Cold Blood, that it could have been written by any staff writer on The New Yorker. The technique of "cut-up"-- Burroughs' application of the montage concept in painting to writing--seems to be used more as an inspirational device before writing than as a writing technique. And his latest book, due for publication late this year, brings Burroughs even closer to conventionality, at least as close as a writer who killed his wife...