Word: mcfadden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon of New Year's Eve, Elizabeth McFadden, 11, and her sister Alice, 12, were playing near their home in Central Islip, N.Y., when two youths accosted them, demanding money. Alice fled over some Long Island Rail Road tracks. Halfway across, Elizabeth saw a train bearing down on her, tried to turn back and stumbled. Her right leg was severed just above the knee by the wheels...
...Supervisor Harvey Milk had just been murdered. Slipping from the City Lights bookstore, Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti lamented the "pathogenic industrial civilization" and then wrote a poem: "A hush upon the landscape/ of the still wild West/ where two sweet dudes are dead/ and no more need be said." Cyra McFadden, whose book The Serial lampoons the insecure laid-back life in rich Marin County north of San Francisco, observed: "I had a good time with the kooks. Now I find I'm less and less amused, and more fearful." Usually ebullient Columnist Herb Caen mourned: "What is it about...
...Decade, Rosen split an infinitive and savages cant as he collects "psychological patter, whose concern is to faithfully catalogue the ego's condition." Examples: "Very laid back," "I know where you're coming from" and "Go with the flow." Rosen was abetted by Novelist Cyra McFadden (The Serial), a resident of Marin County, where, she claims, such "mindless prattle" rises before it heads East to become a major polluter. Her prototype Of the Bay Area language abuser is a student to whom she assigned a Ray Bradbury short story. "I can't relate to the dude...
...some as a kind of contemporary Boswell: "I haven't written anything that hasn't happened -God knows that in San Francisco you don't have to make it up." San Francisco suburbanites had their own serial in the Pacific Sun until its author, Cyra McFadden, got a book contract and published The Serial (Knopf; $4.95), a fast-selling, funny, 52-chapter account of Living Together Relationships and Creative Divorce Groups in Marin County...
This is by no means the first appearance of a Chinese look. Nor is the look exclusively Chinese; the fashion embraces ideas and accents from almost anywhere east of Suez. Designer McFadden's opulent coats are batiked and hand-painted in Java, and other items in her collection speak variously of Japan, Mongolia and the Middle East. The style, says another American designer, Jonathan Hitchcock, "includes anything Eastern-Tibetan, Persian, Indian. It is a much more primitive way of making clothes-simple and functional yet sophisticated." And versatile. Fashions like Hitchcock's side-wrapped, hip-length "Tibetan" jacket...