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IssueVol. 021 Issue 011 (November 1 1988)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS •September is now behind us, phew! It was a very worrisome month for the editors of this journal of the arts. As concerned readers will note on the page opposite, the...
Paid articleCorrespondence/The Spy Letters, Takeover Talk, and Jazz
CORRESPONDENCE "I Am Not Nor Have I Ever Been" Philip Barry's article in your September issue concerning Spy magazine ["Scabrous Spy"] was intermittently amusing. It was also riddled with errors,...
Paid articleEditorials/Accolades for The Duke/Mexico's New Seriousness
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS ACCOLADES FOR THE DUKE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. D efore all interest in this year's .1.3 presidential election fades behind the Republic's oncoming concern about the pennant races, the...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/The Battle for Berkeley
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS THE BATTLE FOR BERKELEY Berkeley, California Last month the Berkeley Property Owners Association met for supper and speeches at Spenger's Fish Grotto, which is in the western,...
Paid articleWanted: Energy in the Executive
Eastland, Terry
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 21, NO. 11 / NOVEMBER 1988 Terry Eastland WANTED: ENERGY IN THE EXECUTIVE Was Ronald Reagan lazy, or should blame for the failed Reagan Revolution be shared by...
Paid articleWhile Yellowstone Burned
Morrison, Micah
Micah Morrison WHILE YELLOWSTONE BURNED A survivor of this summer's fires reports that only Washington bureaucrats and environmentalists could have concocted a "let it burn" policy during a time...
Paid articleThe Sound of Free Poland
Muravchik, Joshua
Joshua Muravchik THE SOUND OF FREE POLAND While shipyard workers and coal miners struck, a historic conference near Krakow marked another step in Poland's internal drive toward independence. I n...
Paid articleThe Catastrophic Health Care Blunder
England, Robert S.
Robert S. England THE CATASTROPHIC HEALTH CARE BLUNDER The story of how Ronald Reagan, Otis Bowen, and a rogue Congress came up with what might be the most expensive piece of social legislation...
Paid articleThe Campaign Spectator/Rooting for Quayle
Owen, Kent
THE CAMPAIGN SPECTATOR ROOTING FOR QUAYLE nce you get there, you wonder how much of Huntington, Indiana you ought to take at face value. This perplexity is akin to what you may think about the...
Paid articleThe Business of America/The SEC vs. Drexel Burnham Milken
Stelzer, Irwin M.
THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA THE SEC VS. DREXEL BURNHAM MILKEN T here is more to the story about I Drexel Burnham Lambert's problems with the Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Attorney Rudolph...
Paid articleAsian Document/The Brits Boot Hong Kong
Szamuely, George
ASIAN DOCUMENT THE BRITS BOOT HONG KONG n the morning of July 1, 1997 some 6 million people will awaken to find themselves under the rule of Communist party secretaries, Communist...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/To Asa Hearthrug, with Appreciation
Gold, Victor
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL TO ASA HEARTHRUG, WITH APPRECIATION by Victor Gold M ax Shulman is dead. He was the King of College Humor in his undergraduate day (which was my undergraduate day), the...
Paid articleEminentoes/The Springsteen-Boesky Connection
Queenan, Joe
EMINENTOES THE SPRINGSTEEN-BOESKY CONNECTION by Joe Queenan ne of the oddest bits of information to surface when risk arbitrageur John Mulheren was arrested last February by Rumson, New Jersey...
Paid articleThe Public Policy/Education: The Dud of Campaign '88
Finn, Chester E. Jr.
THE PUBLIC POLICY EDUCATION: THE DUD OF CAMPAIGN '88 by Chester E. Finn, Jr. T f education never really quickens as an election issue this year, despite the deep concern and boundless enthusiasm...
Paid articleThe Talkies/On The Last Temptation
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES ON THE LAST TEMPTATION by Bruce Bawer Given all the furor, it seemed a sure bet that The Last Temptation of Christ would at least be interesting to watch. Wrong. It's sheer torture—one...
Paid articlePresswatch/A Shrinking World
Ledeen, Michael
PRESSWATCH A SHRINKING WORLD Iisbeen a great summer for the media, and we must choose among a cornucopia of goodies. The award for the most fascinating story comes from the Ivory Coast, courtesy...
Paid articleThe Magic Lantern
Bergman, Ingmar
BOOK REVIEWS T his is the era of show-biz auto- ' biographies as big as the egos of their authors. So Arthur Miller weighs in at 600 tall pages and Elia Kazan at 800 (including, to be sure, the...
Paid articleRemembering America
Goodwin, Richard N.
REMEMBERING AMERICA: A VOICE FROM THE SIXTIES Richard N. Goodwin/Little, Brown/$19.95 Fred Barnes Richard Goodwin was the boy wonder of the Kennedy White House, a young and very liberal aide...
Paid articleAnd We Are Not Saved
Bell, Derrick
AND WE ARE NOT SAVED: THE ELUSIVE QUEST FOR RACIAL JUSTICE Derrick Bell/Basic Books/$19.95 Lino A. Graglia Like his Marxist Critical Legal 1.-./ Studies colleagues on the faculty of Harvard Law...
Paid articleAt a Tender Age / Castaways / High Risk
Kramer, Rita; Cadwalader, George; Magid, Ken; McKelvey, Carole A.
AT A TENDER AGE: VIOLENT YOUTH AND JUVENILE JUSTICE Rita Kramer/Henry Holt/$18.95 CASTAWAYS: THE PENIKESE ISLAND EXPERIMENT George Cadwalader/Chelsea Green Publishing (Chelsea, Vt.)/$17.95 HIGH...
Paid articleThe Body Politic
Gold, Victor; Cheney, Lynne
THE BODY POLITIC Victor Gold & Lynne Cheney/St. Martin's Press/$15.95 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Heretofore my favorite satire of the American democratic zoo has been Henry Adams's Democracy....
Paid articleThe Facts
Roth, Philip
It is unrealistic to expect Philip Roth to entitle his book The Facts and then to open it with "I was born . . ." Roth's notion of Vust the facts, ma'am" consists in preambling the book with a...
Paid articleThe Washington Spectator/The WashBalt Syndrome
Doherty, Carroll
THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR THE WASHBALT SYNDROME by Carroll Doherty. During the (ahem) slower moments of the Democratic National Convention last July, my desperate search for counter-programming led...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Washington Journalism Review The New Age Tammanyite's worldview, as averred by Mr. Jann Wenner, chief aviatrix of Rolling Stone: "The only person I know who claims P. J. O'Rourke...
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