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...novelist's ability to whip observations and emotions into an intellectually compelling, deeply felt, unified narrative, Critics who did praise Daniel applauded. Doctorow`s new found control and intensity, Still, even thought Stanley Kauffmann and Peter Prescott called it in the novel of the tear, the New Yorker didn't consider it at all, and any treatment it received in supposedly serious literary journals was cursory...
...spot that could send them crashing into a tree trunk. The explanation is simple. Skiing is a feast for all the senses. It promises exhilaration, fresh air and muscle-taxing exercise; an hour of downhill skiing can burn up as many as 500 calories. Gisa Wagner, 34, a New Yorker raised in Bavaria, echoes a thousand similar rhapsodies. "There is something incredibly sensuous about skiing. The feeling of your body speeding down a mountain is like a narcotic." Peter Seibert, chairman of the company that runs Colorado's Vail area (see box page 60), puts it this way: "Skiing...
...Last week Poet James Dickey echoed millions of Americans when he said, "I can't begin to calculate all the things I have learned from LIFE. I'm not quite the same person I was because of what I saw and read in its pages." The New Yorker's managing editor, William Shawn, mourned a personal loss: "LIFE invented a great new form of journalism. It contributed much to the American community that was valuable, often reaching moments of brilliance and beauty. It's extremely sad to see it go; LIFE was a triumph from beginning...
...Duddy, a New Yorker who writes music and lyrics for television and nightclub acts, once weighed 268 Ibs. He is now down to about 170 and hopes to stay there thanks to an unusual regimen that permits him to eat heavy cream, dressings and certain other rich food, but allows almost no fruit, cake or candy...
...which the mind may be more or less lifted out of moods and habits into which it is, under the ordinary conditions of city life, likely to fall." Frederick Law Olmsted's words on his noble design for Manhattan may ring with some irony in a New Yorker's ears today as he promenades his German shepherd past a sniffling junkie on a park bench and settles down to meditate on the future of rus in urbe among the tattered newspapers and paper cups surrounding some graffiti-sprayed rock. But the fact is that New York...