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Vol. 027 Issue 010 (October 1 1994)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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• August was another triumphant month for Our President and his elegant wife, Bruno. Neither was subpoenaed or indicted or even asked to take a polygraph. True, in Jersey City, New Jersey, on August...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Macdeth Watch The creativity of Francis X. Bacon's "The Tragedy of Macdeth" (TAS, August 1994) brought the tears and jaw ache that only the funniest stuff could cause. —Charles W....
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Editorials / Bouncy-Bouncy / Foul Mouths
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Jr, R. Emmett Tyrrell
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EDITORIALS Bouncy-Bouncy by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. W ashington, the idyllic hick town in which I dwell, is in another of its episodic fevers about the big, lovable lug of a boy whom we call "Mr....
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Capitol Ideas / Bearish on California
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Bethell, Tom
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Bearish on California by Tom Bethell T he old cliché that national trends begin in California and move on to the rest of the country is thought to be no longer true. Probably with good reason....
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Lloyds of Clinton
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Brock, David
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Lloyds of Clinton Lloyd Cutler and Lloyd Bentsen's unseemly cooperation in suppressing investigations into the Washington phase of Whitewater is only one of many new facts emerging in the wake of...
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Buy George
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Labash, Matt
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Matt Labash Buy George Is that what top people at NationsBank were thinking when they gave Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos an exceptional $668,000 loan? 1 n May, with the help of a $668,000...
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Fashionable Worries
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O'ROURKE, P.J.
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P. J. 0' Rourke Fashionable Worries If meat is murder, are eggs rape? T his is a moment of hope in history. Why doesn't anybody say so? We are no longer in grave danger of the atomic war which,...
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April and Webb and Jean and Jack
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Adams, James Ring
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James Ring Adams April and Webb and Jean and Jack The muzzling of the Kansas City Three is turning into the smoking gun of the Whitewater scandal. T 4 4 he RTC has been a political...
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Presswatch / The Plague
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Corry, John
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The Plague by John Corry T he right-wing peril is on us again, an unholy connivance, the press now warns us, that includes, but is not limited to, crazed preachers, duplicitous politicians, and the...
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Politics / The Future Is Now
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Norquist, Grover G.
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The Future Is Now by Grover G. Norquist A t 11 a.m. on September 27, Republican candidates for the House of Representatives, both incumbents and challengers, will sign a "Contract With America"...
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Ben Stein's Diary / Unmaskings
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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imoo. g ,‘V '*4‘r 0 0 Unmasking s by Benjamin J. Stein Wednesday A bout ten days ago, I went in for an audition to play a lawyer in an upcoming movie. In fact, the part was to be Robert De...
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The Nation's Pulse / Governing by Appearances
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Eastland, Terry
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Governing by Appearances by Terry Eastland I n the first weeks of 1994, when Attorney General Janet Reno was resisting calls for her to appoint a special counsel for Whitewater, she opened a press...
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Constitutional Opinions / Free Speech Vandalized
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Rabkin, Jeremy A.
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS EQUAL Ju Ttc,a u nem LA Free Speech Vandalized by Jeremy A. Rabkin H UD claimed to have been misunderstood. It didn't mean to suppress free speech in its enforcement of...
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Eminentoes / Labour's Sure Thling
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Reid, Stuart
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Labour's Sure Thing by Stuart Reid Only a fool (or knave) would predict that Tony Blair will be the next prime minister of Great Britain. The general election is at least two years away, and as...
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Russia Watch / Wake-Up Calls
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Bernstein, Jonas
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Wake-Up Calls by Jonas Bernstein / was surprised to see Vladimir Zhirinovsky gracing the cover of Time recently. I thought that maybe the newspaper kiosk at the Intourist Hotel near Red Square was...
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The Talkies / A Tale of Two Movies
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Bowman, James
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A Tale of Two Movies by James Bowman L ook here upon this picture, and on this. The first is a typical "blockbuster" thriller, A Clear and Present Danger, and representative of the Hollywood...
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Who Stole Feminism? (Christina Hoff Sommers)
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Schiffren, Lisa
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BOOK REVIEWS C hristina Hoff Sommers's Who Stole Feminism? is a long overdue correction in the marketplace of ideas, which in recent years has been glutted with feminist cant masquerading as...
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Scott Fitzgerald (Jeffrey Meyers), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Matthew J. Bruccoli, ed.), Hemingway (James R. Mellow)
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Lyons, Donald
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T he 1920s will stand as the century's best decade for American prose, but the time was its own worst enemy. Edmund Wilson casually posed the problem when he wrote, "I find I am a man of the...
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China Wakes (Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn), Mandate of Heaven (Orville Schell), The Rise of China (William H. Overholt)
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Barnes, Fred
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A funny thing happened to my family—two adults, four kids—as we ate dinner last summer at the penthouse restaurant of the Sheraton Hotel in Shanghai. Our waitress, a young woman who spoke perfect...
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Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events (Murray Kempton)
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Brookhiser, Richard
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E arly on in this collection of pieces written over the last thirty years, Murray Kempton praises the late columnist Westbrook Pegler, a lifelong hero, for his "fierce and unreasonable vanity about...
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Thank You for Smoking (Christopher Buckley)
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Blood, Amos
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/ t is a truism for our times that the power of satire to ridicule folly and humbug lags behind the power of folly and humbug to pretend that they are not ridiculous at all. Parody falls short of...
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Mrs, Thatcher's Minister (Alan Clark)
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Caldwell, Christopher
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more volumes of diaries in this vein, and the publication of this one alone has already been the stuff of scandal in London. Last May, News of the World broke the story that three of the women Clark...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Washington Post In the course of praising his own Goodwill Games, held this year in St. Petersburg, Russia, the spectacularly laid-back Ted Turner coolly depicts the 1972 massacre of eleven Israeli...
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The Pet Shop Spectator / Hey There, Alligator
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Conlon, Edward
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Hey There, Alligator Victor Bailly, a reticent Puerto Rican, is a Humane Law Enforcement Officer of the ASPCA, and as such serves as an interlocutor between City Hall and the Animal Kingdom. While...
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