Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alas, Powdermilk Bagels, the brand that gives shy New Yorkers the strength to jump over subway turnstiles, was not among the sponsors. Garrison Keillor, the wandering Minnesota minstrel whose Prairie Home Companion variety show on public radio told tales of gentle eccentricity in a hard-to-find Midwestern hamlet called Lake Wobegon, says he has put shyness behind him. Just as well. Keillor, whose new American Radio Company of the Air fills the old P.H.C. Saturday-evening slot (6 to 8 p.m. EST), is now a New Yorker himself, an unstrained and wildly germinating seed in the Big Applesauce. Like...
Greg Schaffer gives another of the production's most powerful performances. As the Cowboy in one scene from Welcome to the Moon, even Schaffer's simplest declarations ("Yes, I've killed a man.") are hilarious. In The Zoo Story, his passionate portrayal of Jerry, the embittered New Yorker who believes that "God turned his back on the whole thing some time ago," leaves the audience as fascinated by his theories as it is disgusted by their substance. Schaffer's mimed battles with the landlady's dog are especially superb. He bites off his words and takes pleasure in the revulsion...
...poets and literary critics have tried to come to terms with Eliot's contradictory legacy. The most recent salvo against the Eliot mystique was launched by Cynthia Ozick in her highly critical article, "T.S. Eliot at 101," which ran in the November 20, 1989 issue of The New Yorker...
Zarin, a staff writer for The New Yorker, agrees that writing poetry is a long and difficult process that is often unrewarding for the artist. "Poetry is not a career choice," she says. "It certainly wouldn't be a very wise...
...want to get the government mad at you -- even a local government. I once wrote an article critical of New York City's tax department. Two months later, I was summoned to a three-year audit. At the time the city was auditing only about one New Yorker a day -- out of 8 million -- but it was probably just coincidence they chose...