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- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: Talk of the Town
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 19
- SOCIETY
- Talk of the Town
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- <body>
- <p>Tina Brown tries a controversial cover on The New Yorker
- </p>
- <p> Readers accustomed to the artful blend of whimsy and genteel
- humor in the New Yorker for 68 years are in for a shock. This
- week's cover features a painting of a Hasidic man and a black
- woman engaged in a loving kiss. New Yorker art editor Lee
- Lorenz and editor Tina Brown, four months on the job since she
- arrived from sassy Vanity Fair, faced intense opposition to the
- cover from the magazine's senior staff. Several objected to the
- painting--not for its blunt representation of interracial
- harmony but in the "fear that we were being glib about a very
- personal subject," according to Lorenz. Brown overruled them
- all. "It was an important cover for us to do," she said.
- Pressing her plan to spruce up the magazine's dusty, tweedy
- image, Brown promises more changes yet. Just wait till readers
- take in her Eustace Tilley, the magazine's urbane mascot, who
- will show up soon with a new look.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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