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IssueVol. 022 Issue 012 (December 1 1989)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • October will be remembered in the annals of American history as the month during which Americans witnessed one of the rarest of modern events, to wit: a legitimate news...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CAPITOL IDEAS STAR-WARS WARS by Tom Bethell efore a small group the other day in the late 1970s, to avoid running afoul thing it wasn't. Government programs Warriors (1985). "The site was named...
Paid articleEditorials/Life Is Imitation/Kinsley Does It Again
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS KINSLEY DOES IT AGAIN A las, Michael Kinsley has stepped taste or no principle. There was the row into another of those ignomin- at Harper's during which he apologized ious...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Report From Britain
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS REPORT FROM BRITAIN by Tom Bethell F rom time to time a number of Danger Prognosis for Radioactive high time for the British Army of the Stephen Haseler. I spent an evening readers...
Paid articlePut Us in Mental Institutions, Please!
O'Rourke, P. J.
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 22, NO. 12 / DECEMBER 1989 P. J. O'Rourke PUT US IN MENTAL INSTITUTIONS, PLEASE! A Washington homebody reports on the antics of those perennially indignant "Housing...
Paid articleKiddie Litter
Dunlap, John R.
John R. Dunlap KIDDIE LITTER Children's books do a thriving business in the U.S.— in titles more likely to prepare your kids for a dreary life in the New Age than for real life. T n 1745, at St....
Paid articleThe People Next Door
Mallon, Thomas
Thomas Mallon THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR A resident of New York City's Turtle Bay crosses the street and discovers the perverse lost world of the United Nations. Iis11:05 a.m. on September 25 and here...
Paid articleBooks for Christmas
BOORS FOR GEREMAS It's that time of year again, as eminent readers and writers recommend tomes— some old, some new—certain to delight giver, recipient, and Santa alike. ELLIOTT ABRAMS The...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Point Doom
Stein, Benjamin J.
THE NATION'S PULSE POINT DOOM by Benjamin J. Stein Point Dume, Malibu T he morning after Labor Day, and 1 there was absolutely no energy at all in the air. It was foggy out over Santa Monica Bay....
Paid articleEminentoes/Air America's Flyboys
Brock, David
EMINENTOES AIR AMERICA'S FLYBOYS W hen Ivar Gram asked one of his fellow ex-pilots if the small red insignia on his white polo shirt was a marijuana leaf, the joke did not go down well. "Canadian...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Homer and His Publishers
Queenan, Joe
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS HOMER AND HIS PUBLISHERS M ost people think that when Homer finished writing The Iliad, publishing houses were breaking down the door to get first crack at it. Nothing...
Paid articlePresswatch/Printheads vs. Pictureheads
Eastland, Terry
PRESSWATCH PRINTHEADS VS. PICTUREHEADS T he latest journalistic treatment of I Ronald Reagan is The Acting President, published by E. P. Dutton this past summer, with a huge first run of 75,000...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Letter from Bodrum
Greer, Herb
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL LETTER FROM BODRUM by Herb Greer Bodrum, Turkey t4V or Americans," I said to Ah.1.. med, "Turkey is a bird that goes gobble, gobble. You eat it at Thanksgiving and...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Bette Davis, RIP
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES BETTE DAVIS, RIP by Bruce Bawer T o view, in quick succession, a half dozen or so of the movies that Bette Davis made during what we may call her Golden Age—during the decade, in other...
Paid articleThe Great Siamese Saloon Series/The Authors' Lounge
Brookhiser, Richard
THE GREAT SIAMESE SALOON SERIES THE AUTHORS' LOUNGE by Richard Brookhiser W esterners think of everything would "learn about the country" there- with their work. Since they have been automobiles,...
Paid articleThe Closed Circle
Pryce-Jones, David
BOOK REVIEWS rr he treason of an Arab begins 1 when he enjoys listening to Mozart or Beethoven." This statement, made by a Timisian, appears near the end of The Closed Circle. It is shocking even...
Paid articleThe Politics of Literary Reputation
Rodden, John
THE POLITICS OF LITERARY REPUTATION: THE MAKING AND CLAIMING OF "ST. GEORGE" ORWELL John Rodden/Oxford University Press/478 pp. $27.50 Christopher Caldwell D uring the Cold War, the Marxist and...
Paid articleGreat Plains
Frazier, Ian
whom "said he had always wanted to see what it felt like to kill somebody. He said that it felt like nothing." The same pokerfaced prose seems appropriate to Frazier's frequent historical...
Paid articleIrwin Shaw
Shnayerson, Michael
IRWIN SHAW: A BIOGRAPHY Michael Shnayerson/G. P. Putnam's Sons/447 pp. $24.95 Lionel Abel n the cover of Michael Shnayer- ing cared somewhat, a man who may son's biography of Irwin Shaw have (in...
Paid articleWeak Link
Mitchell, Brian
rr he feminization of the American military is perhaps the greatest peacetime military deception ever perpetrated." With that opening salvo, Brian Mitchell mounts a full-scale assault on one of...
Paid articleThe Denver Spectator/First Impressions
Shiflett, Dave
THE DENVER SPECTATOR FIRST IMPRESSIONS D enver is a great place if you're a dog. They haven't got many fleas here, and heartworm's unheard of. But it goes beyond that. Denver makes a dog feel at...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Modesto Bee "Every day I'm open to struggle"? "I feel virginal"? La Fonda's years with Hayden have led to dementia—or worse: Jane Fonda, recently separated from Tom Hayden, her...
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