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Article: Up-to-the-minute New Yorker; troubled Sinead O'Connor
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 21, 1992
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Poor New Yorker diehards. The fourth installment of the new
New Yorker, dated Oct. 26, confirms hope that Tina Brown will save
the magazine from oblivion with reactivity, brevity and just a tad of
vulgarity.
Warning: Fans of verbal Muzak may find this item disturbing.
Brown is wisely exploiting The New Yorker's position as a weekly,
leading the new issue with tart, hot-off-the-press reviews of
Madonna's "Sex," last Thursday's debate and last week's birthday
party for Arthur Schlesinger Jr. She is also working to ground the
magazine in here-and-now America, the one plagued by disease (a story
on HIV-like viruses), by intolerance (an op-ed on Bush-Quayle
homophobia), by environmental worry ...