The Continuing Crisis
THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 August deliquesces into September, and the liberal Democrats Suddenly envisage the illogical, the unimaginable, the truly catastrophic peripeteia, to wit:...
...Walter Murphy, 27, is but one more victim of Reaganomics...
...Not that the liberal Democrats have ever been far from the public trough, yet during the presidency of our Ron they have been living under unusually stringent conditions with only minimal increases in government appropriations to slop around in...
...Hardison explained that the woman's hex was probably in retaliation for the time the puckish Hardison hung her naked and upsidedown from a second-floor window until she guessed the password ("How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood...
...What secret potions are in the Honorable Tip's vault fhat the Honorable Mitterrand has not--abracadabra-already tried...
...on September 25...
...morning the computer screen showed $4,443,642.71 in his account--a " g i f t from God...
...Brother Powers, who had had but $1.17 in the Bank, spent the entire night Of September 7 praying before the Teller and pushing buttons, and by...
...The North-Central Montana Mental Health Center has been forced to shut down a very progressive alternative services program that actually trained the cent e r ' s outpatients in the use of firearms...
...His mother, Mrs...
...Criticized in the past for the extravagance of the weekend, these are establishment blacks keenly aware that thei r seminars on the poor and unemployed seem out of sync with the expensive, carnival-like air...
...The approximately 565-pound convicted rapist had been released last summer from his 15-year sentence when he successfully argued that prison would be detrimental to a man in his condition--a chilling setback for the handicapped, that...
...9 Finally, the Congressional Black Caucus held its 12th Annual Legislative Weekend...
...A poplar tree entangled with Kudzu vines has become a shrine in Holden, West Virginia, owingto the profile of Jesus that appears on its foliage in moonlight, Mrs...
...But hold[ Tip and his allies from the magicwand school of economics may have less reason for jubilation than they think...
...THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 August deliquesces into September, and the liberal Democrats Suddenly envisage the illogical, the unimaginable, the truly catastrophic peripeteia, to wit: a return to the public trough, granted by a grateful electorate...
...Murphy has a history of drug use going back to the great days of the Youth Rebellion...
...Wills from regular employment with promises of speaking engagements...
...Thus the Republic's sodomists are denied forthright representation...
...and as if to emphasize this unhappy pass, on the very day after the Honorable Richmond's inglorious exit former congressional page Leroy Williams, he who had theretofore maintained that the Republic's lower chamber was a homosexual hotbed, came clean--his story was a fabrication_9 Our claims to democratic representation~ have sustained a grievous blow...
...Frank Wills (no relation to Dr...
...Then back to those private brunches _9 . . and male models...
...Hardison had told her that the whole thing was the latest in existential fashion she would have been a lot easier to coax out that window, and with no hard feelings...
...Fagan intended to deprive the Prince of the wine, which he admittedly consumed...
...Joseph Chambers and a mob of fevered Christians, the Miss Gay America pageant went without a hitch in Charlotte, N.C...
...Murphy dug a hole in his mother's backyard and buried himself, while suffering the" delusion that he was a gopher...
...9 Under Israeli guns, the Palestine Liberation Organization withdrew from-Beirut, capping a surprising strategic coup for the West that was absurdly flawed by the subsequent Phalangist slaughter of Palestinians in Lebanon's Sabra and Chatila refugee camps...
...Finally, a man who had been taunted on a San Francisco street corner as he "preached the gospels" went berserk and drove his automobile over three small children, sacrificing two and critically injuring the other...
...JoJo Giorgianni to the clink...
...A swagger returns to his gait...
...Similar liberality does not reign in the Great Republic where a public furor returned Mr...
...Yet the fire of the human spirit is unquenchable...
...9 The dark shade of Reaganism spreads, and in South Los Angeles, Mr...
...Davis's yard...
...And so at a Saturday morning prayer breakfast Andy Young noted the "helplessness and hopelessness" and urged the assembled to join him in blubbering...
...Murphy's lack of self-esteem, noting that "he was depressed...
...Frederick W. Richmond, vacated his seat (pardon the expression) after pleading guilty to tax evasion and one or two other minor felonies...
...9 Late in August--and just as San Francisco's Gay Olympics was showing such promise--the House of Representatives' only convicted pederast, the Hon...
...While the cameras whirred and flashed, while the reporters jotted notes, 400 or so of Andy's colleagues "wept quietly...
...Last July, they dug him out of the same hole," Mrs...
...Olga Davis, explained the cause of Mr...
...Fagan intended to return the liquid once filtered through his kidneys...
...Presumably jurors were convinced that Mr...
...There was steak tartare at a lavish reception for [Shirley] Chisholm on Friday," the redoubtable Washington Post reported, "male models at a fashion show on Saturday, spicy Bloody Marys at the private brunches yesterday...
...Another of the heroes of Watergate has suffered a mysterious calamity...
...There were beautiful suits and silks...
...Contestants were evaluated in talent, leadership, and evening gown competition in the transvestite pageant, while the Reverend Chambers howled that Charlotte was in danger of becoming like unto San Francisco...
...From France comes word that M. Mitterrand's generous policies have brought the French not only double-digit inflation and a drop of more than 30 percent in the franc's value, but also 9 percent unemploy~ ment and a screeching economic slowdown...
...In Florida, state officials have agreed to drop charges of practicing unlicensed medicine against Miss Faith Darlene Biggie contingent on her promise to become a certified midwife...
...and, according to an NCI~'~MHC official, the program "blew up in our faces...
...This time the victim was Mr...
...Ever since that night of glory, occultkforces have been luring Mr...
...Now, however, with unemployment high and August's index of economic indicators down, a smile returns to Tip O'Neill's rubicund muzzle...
...In the aftermath of nationally published news stories about the program there were a lot of knownothing inquiries...
...He withdrew $2,000 and by month's end godless bank officials were charging him with grand theft...
...So last spring he began digging holes in Mrs...
...He clicks his heels...
...His elocutionary talents are so meager, however, that not even university convocations welcome him, and on September 3 the unemployed hero of yesteryear was nabbed in Augusta, Georgia for stealing a $17 pair of tennis shoes...
...He couldn't get a job...
...Shelby Sheppard, who lives across from the tree, reported to theAssociated Press that the holy profile w~is discovered by two of her gifted sons during a beer-drinking session in August...
...Davis confirmed, but still no jobs turned up...
...The question of guilt, according to prosecutor Barbara Mills, depended solely on whether Mr...
...A pattern is forming here...
...Despite the ravings of the Rev...
...This little intellectual exercise took place 20 years ago, but today the modern woman is evening a lot of old scores, and that password would present difficulties even for St/san Sontag--though 20 years ago if Mr...
...Garry Wills), the security guard who detected Gordon Liddy's crack team fumbling through Democratic headquarters...
...RET THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1982 7...
...And in Nashville, Tennessee, Mr...
...Miss Biggie had been accused of attempting to induce childbirth by sitting on a pregnant woman's face...
...9 In religious news Mr...
...Michael Fagan, the 30-year-old dinkelspiel who entered Queen Elizabeth's bed chamber last July to exchange suavities with her, was acquitted on charges of stealing a bottle of the Prince of Wales's wine during an earlier nocturnal mission...
...Stanton Powers of Santa Cruz, California has had his prayers answered by an Automatic Teller at the County Bank thereof...
...William T. Hardison has filed a lawsuit against a former paramour who left a dead chicken and a voodoo doll on his porch pursuant to hexing him and all his amorous acquaintances, past and future...
Vol. 15 • November 1982 • No. 11
