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Vol. 022 Issue 010 (October 1 1989)
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The Continuing Crisis
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• The days of August 1989 grew progressively shorter, yet it turned out to be one long month. President Bush joined the hostage wars and came out of them wrapped in yellow ribbons. Sen. Robert Dole...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Closing the Book on Quayle As a parody of the liberal press, your publication, I, for one, am going to As one who went to college in Indiana RE: "Deconstructing the Danny Quayle...
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Editorials/Beauty and the Beasts/Gorby of Mayberry
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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GORBY OF MAYBERRY requently an international news Perhaps it is the sunny way in which I: story is received differently in dif- the American media cover the Soviet ferent parts of the world. Here...
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Capitol Ideas/Divided Over Defense
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS DIVIDED OVER DEFENSE by Tom Bethell T n recent months the confusion that aggressively by a signed piece of paper. air-based, and sea-based missiles. The between two options by...
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A New McCarthyism: The List Continues
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O'Rourke, P. J.
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I've got a little list—I've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground, And who never would be missed—who never would be missed! . . . the idiot who praises with...
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The Mysteries of RU-486
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Allen, Charlotte Low
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N ow that the Supreme Court has decided to allow states to restrict abortion substantially at hospitals and medical clinics, interest among members of the women's movement has rekindled in...
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Special Report: The Asbestos Rip-Off
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Fumento, Michael
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FV or the school board of San Fran- cisco, and the students of McAteer High School, it was the problem that wouldn't die. In the early eighties, after a routine check, the school was discovered to...
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Special Report: Brat Pack II
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Heard, Alex
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"People are waiting for me to pull a kind of a Fitzgerald in my life and die of an overdose." —Jay McInerney New York magazine, September 1988 T hings happen fast in literary Young 1. America....
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Spectator's Journal/Carrot and Shtick
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Teachout, Terry
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CARROT AND SHTICK FLUSHING: Why announce the death of Sir Laurence Olivier on the front page while the death of a greater American, Mel Blanc, rated only a mention on page 7 the day before? Let's...
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Presswatch/Supreme Court Press
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Eastland, Terry
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SUPREME COURT PRESS T n its term ending in early July, I the Supreme Court handed down five decisions involving civil rights, all of which were regarded as losses by the organized civil rights...
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Eminentoes/Gold Diggers of '89
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Queenan, Joe
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EMINENTOES GOLD DIGGERS OF '89 by Joe Queenan W hen environmental activist Joao writers. "Joao's reappearance throws a authors. Montez biographies slated to going to be twiddling it or their...
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The Nation's Pulse/Four for Baseball's Good Old Days
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Gold, Victor
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"This program saved my neck when faced with teaching two new courses and two months to prepare. SQUARENOTE gathered all the research, organized it, and even printed out my lecture notes. A basic,...
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The California Spectator/Let's Rake a Deal
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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THE CALIFORNIA SPECTATOR LET'S RAKE A by Benjamin J. Stein H ere, verbatim to the extent that I "Reverse bankruptcy?" I asked. get to avoid the adverse emotional and tion recognizing the hurt of...
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The Talkies/In Woody's Shadow
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Bawer, Bruce
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IN WOODY'S SHADOW You might call Parenthood a mid- dle-class, Midwestern variation on Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters. Like Hannah, it's a family portrait—an alternately funny and poignant...
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The Culture We Deserve
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Barzun, Jacques
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THE CULTURE WE DESERVE Jacques Barzun, edited by Arthur Krystal Wesleyan University Press/185 pp. $19.95 John Simon T t is very hard for a reviewer to do 1 justice to a book so fertile in ideas,...
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Memoirs of a Counter-Revolutionary
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Cruz, Arturo Jr.
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onsidering their advantages, the contras_really should have won in Nicaragua. Their cause was just, which counts for something. There were plenty of them—as many as 15,000 actual soldiers at one...
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God's Dust
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Buruma, Ian
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GOD'S DUST: A MODERN ASIAN JOURNEY Ian Buruma/Farrar Straus Giroux/267 pp. $18.95 William McGurn In the middle of Hong Kong's central district stands the most expensive building in the world,...
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Collected Poems
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Larkin, Philip
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T he Collected Poems of Philip 1 Larkin, editor, jazz critic, and librarian at the University of Hull, have appeared four years after his death in a volume edited by Anthony Thwaite. The first thing...
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Now, Where Were We?
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Blount, Roy Jr.
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Roy Blount, Jr.'s new book brings to mind the story of the baseball writer who in the 1950s came back to the press box shaking his head after talking to Casey Stengel, the Yankee manager then at...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Washington Post No, she is not pulling our legs—Mary McGrory really believes this; and, perhaps, after her virtuosi have reformed Managua she will dispatch them to Peking, where tough...
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