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Vol. 024 Issue 001 (January 1 1991)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • November was a cruel month. Before it was over the Conservative party of Great Britain had shunted aside the longest-serving prime minister in more than 160 years and one of...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Salamizdat In the course of reading Cathy Young's excellent article in the November issue ("Suicide Solution," Soviet Presswatch), I was suddenly transported back in time about...
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Editorials/You Must Remember Hiss/Democrats to the Rescue
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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DEMOCRATS TO THE RESCUE It appears that my campaign predic- tion of last month was fla fla. I pronounced that President Bush was "headed for a terrible mid-term defeat." Ever the good sport, he had...
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Capitol Ideas/Politics Misconstrued
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS POLITICS MISCONSTRUED F or Republicans, the political landscape does not look very promising following the midterm elections. The claim that the number of House seats lost was below...
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Bush's Great Escape
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Barnes, Fred
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 24, NO. 1 / JANUARY 1991 Fred Barnes BUSH'S GREAT ESCAPE The elections of 1990 have weakened Republicans, but less than they had feared. Voters have given President...
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Rhode Show
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Mallon, Thomas
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Thomas Mallon RHODE SHOW Rhode Island's senatorial race pitted doddering Claiborne Pell against perky Claudine Schneider. It offered the voter New Age rhetoric in old age homes, lots of ethnic...
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The Sword and the Shield
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Morrison, Micah
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Micah Morrison THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD Americans in Saudi Arabia are beginning to worry that the Saudis are using them as a kind of mercenary army. Underground imams are warning that the...
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The Nation's Pulse/Busing's Comeback
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Allen, Charlotte
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groups with names like Bustop (sic) and the Citizens Legal Defense Alliance. Now, there is silence. The reason is that those who know how to complain effectively—whites and middle-class blacks—have...
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Spectator's Journal/Moscow a Go-Go
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Young, Cathy
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL MOSCOW A GO-GO by Cathy Young rr ravelers who have noted a pleasant 1 change in the manners of guards at Soviet border checkpoints—from "What are you doing in our country,...
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Presswatch/The Sunday Soaps
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH THE SUNDAY SOAPS In Houston the day before the mid- term elections, George Bush lit into the Washington-based "talk shows," pronouncing them "tiring" and accusing the "pundits" who...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Capital Beer at the Union Jack
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES CAPITAL BEER AT THE UNION JACK A s you might expect, Washington, D.C., where nearly everyone is either a primary or secondary parasite of the federal government,...
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The Talkies/Empty Dreams
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES EMPTY DREAMS by James Bowman W hen I taught English to small boys and compelled them to offer up creative prose compositions for my approval, I used to tell them that all essays ending...
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Beyond the Boom
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Gilder, George
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BOOK REVIEWS W by has Tom Wolfe given up? Once the most bloodcurdling scourge of America's cultural intelligentsia, he has abandoned the O'Hare faculty club to scramble up the slopes of Mount...
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Boom Boxes: Boom Babies
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Irvine, William
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BOOM BABIES I love children-especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -Nancy Mitford five minutes. I feel this is a generous allotment. Your baby is not some kind of a joke....
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Boom Boxes: Boom Companions
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Mysak, Joe
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BOOM COMPANIONS M en, H.L. Mencken once wrote, have a better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another, they die earlier. We are reminded every day just how much better a...
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Suddenly
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Will, George
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George Will's finest moment as a columnist came April 22, 1982, when he filed one of the most compelling essays ever about the abortion culture, "The Short Life and Long Dying of Infant Doe." As he...
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Trashing the Planet
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Ray, Dixy Lee; Guzzo, Lou
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66N o respectable scientist denies" that we are undergoing global warming, stated Strobe Talbott in Time magazine in 1989. Since then, several studies by such respected institutions as MIT and the...
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Preston Sturges
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Sturges, Preston
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In America, it's not that we don't produce great men. It is rather that we rarely recognize them when we do. We know a celebrity when we see one —a performer (in the broadest sense of the word) who...
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Dorothy Healey Remembers
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Healey, Dorothy; Isserman, Maurice
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DOROTHY HEALEY REMEMBERS: A LIFE IN THE AMERICAN COMMUNIST PARTY Dorothy Healey and Maurice Isserman Oxford University Press/263 pp. $22.95 Ronald Radosh A s Theodore Draper has pointed out,...
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Under God
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Wills, Garry
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Even as the election book has be- L come a genre, so has the post-election book: the jottings from the campaign trail that blossom into something quite different. Garry Wills's Under God is the...
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The Best American Short Stories 1990
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Queenan, Joe
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rr he most voracious fiction aficio1 nada I know says that she never touches short stories because "just when I start to get interested in the characters it's time to say goodbye." She wouldn't have...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Chicago Tribune How The American Spectator and National Review ruined the reputation of John Updike and set the Feminist Terror upon him, as reported by Ms. Garry Wills: On the...
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