Word: backpacker
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...certain to draw more psychosexual analysis. The crossfire is not likely to affect Sendak's life or style. After 35 years of remarkable work he is more preoccupied with the inside than the outside over there. Recently he watched a father carrying his young son in a backpack. The father stopped suddenly and the child bumped his head. "For an instant," the artist remembers, "it looked as if the child were about to cry. Then his head snapped backward, the kid stared at the sky openmouthed, and his face broke into this great goofy grin. I imagined...
McGinnis is not the writer McPhee is. Going to Extremes is little more than hastily scrawled notes on paper wrinkled from being stashed in the author's backpack during a year's travel. It's all grubby and tough, rambling along with McGinnis as he trudges and airlifts back and forth across Alaska. The style is rough, unfluent, and unpolished, with sentence fragments and single words often strung together or chopped up in an outdoorsy gruffness that is quite suitable for the ramshackle and breathtaking world McGinnis explores, though too often it sounds like plain old bad writing. But throughout...
...most part, the convention floor is full-people sit in their flag-red folding chairs and chat, sleep, or read The Times. But the network crews, self-contained TV stations complete with backpack transmitters, constantly criss-cross the floor in search of some small scandal. When one stops, the others gather. Like blood beginning to clot, the aisle where Garrick Utley halts suddenly attracts Lesly Stahl, Sam Donaldson, and their assorted assistants. Tuesday afternoon, while most of the delegates stared unseeingly at the podium or talked with someone in an adjacent delegation, Sander Vanocur decided that the Massachusetts delegation needed...