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IssueVol. 023 Issue 009 (September 1 1990)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • With world leaders jetting to and fro with much ado, July turned out to be the busiest summer month in memory. President Bush alone traveled to Kennebunkport, London,...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE Squish Twists as remarkable as Col. Regan proclaims. regularly deflating those dangerous a sleepy but happy country, under the Readers might have wondered about an My reaction to it,...
Paid articleEditorials/Taxing Times/Freak Shows
Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS FREAK SHOWS America loves its freak shows. P. T. eral public. That they can degrade our Barnum recognized this and pro- judicial system with impunity does not vided them in abundance....
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Mitch Snyder's Sendoff
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS MITCH SNYDER'S SENDOFF by Tom Bethell F or the "Farewell Celebration of as though requesting release from its Emergency Preparedness and various provided with passes so that they...
Paid articleKevin Phillips Turns the Screws on Conservatives
Szamuely, George
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 9 / SEPTEMBER 1990 George Szamuely KEVIN PHILLIPS TURNS THE SCREWS ON CONSERVATIVES How the resentful architect of the GOP's "Southern strategy" became...
Paid articleCorazon Aquino's Poverty Pimps
McGurn, William
William McGurn CORAZON AQUINO'S POVERTY PIMPS Ferdinand and Imelda may be long gone, but the Philippines remains the welfare queen of Asia, hooked on policies that brought the country to ruin in...
Paid articleCongress, Nader, and the Ambulance Chasers
England, Robert Stowe
Robert Stowe England CONGRESS, NADER, AND THE AMBULANCE CHASERS With allies like erstwhile consumer advocate Ralph Nader and leading congressional Democrats, trial lawyers have emerged as...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Mission to Malawi
Gregory, Joseph R.
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL MISSION TO MALAWI Lilongwe, Malawi T t's almost noon on a Saturday at the U.S. Information Center here, where a two-week-old video of ABC News is drawing a big crowd. News of...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Be Cool
Stein, Benjamin J.
THE NATION'S PULSE BE COOL by Benjamin J. Stein ou wouldn't want to venture into Also identifies you as so insecure about huahua, but it's Creepsville here. Stay where outside the gym. Very cool...
Paid articlePresswatch/The New Intolerants
Eastland, Terry
PRESSWATCH THE NEW INTOLERANTS In its July 9 edition, Time reported that Louisiana had passed "the nation's most restrictive abortion law." Restrictive? Of what? Time meant that the law would...
Paid articleSoviet Presswatch/Death and Despair
Young, Cathy
SOVIET PRESSWATCH DEATH AND DESPAIR In a recent letter to the youth daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, one reader took a bold and defiant stand: he was happy to have been born in the Soviet Union. Yes,...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Tricky Dick
Bowman, James
THE TALKIES TRICKY DICK by James Bowman when William Randolph Hearst introduced America to color comics in the New York Journal he described them as "eight pages of polychromatic effulgence that...
Paid articleToo Good to be True, by James Traub
Starr, Roger
BOOK REVIEWS T ames Traub has a good tale to spin: J the plundering of the United States Treasury by an unlikely, ill-matched gang of unpremeditating felons under cover of law. The instrument they...
Paid articleNotes of a Hanging Judge, by Stanley Crouch
Bayles, Martha
S tyle and substance seem to be at odds in contemporary discourse, to the detriment of both. The dense, crackling, iridescent prose of which English is singularly capable is too often wielded in the...
Paid articleGreat Possessions, by David Kline
Shiflett, Dave
might have wondered what he was uninvited guests." Again, something thinking about as he bounced along in most of us probably didn't know. Kline's his buggy, serenely stroking his hairy book is full...
Paid articleBlood Class, and Nostalgia, by Christopher Hitchens
Falcoff, Mark
I asked to review Christopher Hitch- 1 ens's Blood Class, and Nostalgia because I expected it to be hugely entertaining. After all, the only thing more distasteful to me than an American Anglophile...
Paid articleColeridge, by Richard Holmes
Cranston, Maurice
38 COLERIDGE: EARLY VISIONS Richard Holmes/Viking/409 pp. $22.95 Maurice Cranston T he prestige of Samuel Taylor Cole- faith in freedom, but claimed that the 1 ridge, poet and philosopher, has...
Paid articleCaptain Sir Richard Francis Burton, by Edward Rice
Miller, Mark
vited into a very exotic sect shows some safe [for him]," as well as feeling a nerve. sincere Muslim call—he was by this The events that made up British co- time a Sufi master—Burton arranged...
Paid articleThe Spanish Spectator/Land of My Father
Marin, Rick
THE SPANISH SPECTATOR LAND OF MY FATHER It was during a commercial for whole-wheat bread that I saw a woman's breasts floating languidly across a TV screen in the New Spain. First came the...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Guardian In the inimitable Guardian, Britain's chief processor of Fabian flapdoodle, a Comrade Lawrence Sutton blows the whistle on the conspirators in Peking's pro-democracy putsch...
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