The Continuing Crisis
THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 June passes and with it the odious ERA, the latter being a helpless victim, if reports in the media are to be believed, of some dim immensity, inscrutable...
...According to the woman's ten-year-old daughter, Mrs...
...Actually he should be grateful that others are willing to take the blame...
...King Khalid, a heart patient, owned one of the most extensive collections of New York Times lingerie ads in the Arab world, and his final seizure came just clays after a new supply of Bloomingdale's ads was presented to him by an unnamed Western industrialist...
...9 John W. Hinckley, Jr., who went to all that trouble to shoot President Reagan last March, was found not guilty by reason of insanity...
...Mentry sat on her son for three hours because a local counseling service had advised her to "use your weight" to restrain her hyperactive son...
...Born of the lie that the American male conspired in his Rotary Clubs to enslave the female, the ERA is buried by liars claiming that this ghastly legal monstrosity was defeated by the corporate bogeyman...
...James...
...Robinson argued with him about that seven-year-old accident he let him have it...
...Richard Moss, who stabbed a cigarette smoker in an elevator on the campus of San Francisco State University, has pleaded self-defense...
...The pendulum continues to swing...
...Rich friends of President Reagan continue to shower him with opulence for his valiant efforts to keep the poor man down...
...Werner Fassbinder died...
...Fassbinder, a German movie director from the life-is-not-worth-living school, finally took his own work seriously...
...His mind aswirl with all the infamies of 2,000 years of dog-kicking, he bit Mr...
...Crabtree's nose off...
...Charlie Weird of San Francisco, California, has designed a piece of pungent warm weather jewelry, a necklace featuring a genuine mousetrap complete with mouse...
...That is one year more than the voting age...
...On June 13, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia died, a probable victim of women's underwear...
...Terry McGinnis...
...to drink demands more maturity than to vote...
...Marti's dog...
...James, who was arrested shortly after robbing a garage, had made the error of wearing a T-shirt with--alas --his name on the back...
...And China Youth News editorialized in Peking that youthful Chinese who wear T-shirts might fare even worse than Mr...
...Louis robber by the name of James will never wear another while on the job...
...In the District of Columbia a wholly factitious statehood convention convened and drew up a constitution so bizarre that citizens would have to drink to vote, and author Jerzy Kosinski faced a mutiny when two assistants from his harem divulged that they had written parts of his books for him...
...9 In San Jose, California the corpulent and sedentary Mrs...
...RET THE AMERICAN SPECTATC)R AUGUST 1982 7...
...McGinnis had designed the gun himself, and when Mr...
...There you have it...
...The media swallowed this claptrap again on June 12 when a huge peace rally filled Central Park, but the indefatigable Joe Sobran of National Review was there, too, and while sleuths of major media lolled in the catnip Sobran recorded the speakers on the platform: Robert Drinan, Bella Abzug, Helen Caldicott, Coretta Scott King, William Sloane Coffin, Elizabeth Holtzman, Barry Commoner--speakers from what some poor sap at the New York Times called a "rainbow spectrum" of American politics...
...In Spanish Lake, Missouri, dog lover Michael Marti's conscience rebelled when Mr...
...The verdict outraged millions, but you can imagine how it was received in the home of Mr...
...Richard Crabtree kicked Mr...
...McGinnis, who was left a quadriplegic after a 1975 automobile accident, shot John A. Robinson, a passenger in McGinnis's car at the time of the accident, with a special gun that allowed McGinnis to fire it with his tongue...
...A University of Miami researcher has announced that smokers would actually benefit if cigarettes contained more nicotine...
...Thatcher's legions took Port Stanley, the last Argentine stronghold in the Falklands, and Mr...
...9 Finally, there is still more evidence of a growing conservative trend in the Republic...
...9 And the Women of the Fevered Brow were not the only liars to hornswoggle our beleaguered media last month...
...Phil Donahue, sniffily canceled out in New York when only 250 tickets were sold for his appearance in a 2,700-seat theater, and the Palestine Liberation Organization headed for the hills, thence for the bomb shelters of old Beirut, when the Israelis decided they had received one mortar barrage too many from PLO enclaves in southern Lebanon...
...Jimmy Carter never got jellybean lamps...
...The Shrine is the residence of Mrs...
...Their dissimulations might have chloroformed the American media, but they did not fool the rest of us...
...In the last week of June, she finally divulged the components of the ghastly force that doomed ERA, to wit: the Republican party and "special corporate intere s t s " ! Yes, it was a cabal that "profits massively from sex discrimination particularly on the local level...
...magazine, journalism's equivalent of the hog-brains sandwich, celebrated its tenth anniversary...
...T-shirts may be about to go out of fashion--certainly a St...
...Betty Marie Mentry, 45, had felony manslaughter charges filed against her...
...9 Ms...
...An autopsy revealed that he had turned himself into an enormous human test tube replete with sleeping pills, cocaine, and, of course, laxatives...
...Maria Rubio, who without formal theological instruction managed on October 5, 1977, to fry a tortilla intaglioed with the image of Jesus Christ--fight in the midst of the grease...
...We turned to our mothers, and they, with Mrs...
...What precisely that immensity might have been no one in the media would fain define...
...Once again the common sense of the American is revealed...
...Only La Smeal of La NOW gave the details...
...On June 5 Miss Sophia Loren was released from a Naples hoosegow after serving 17 days of a 30-day jail sentence for tax evasion, but all was not roses...
...Dennis Ruminer and Mr...
...THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS _9 June passes and with it the odious ERA, the latter being a helpless victim, if reports in the media are to be believed, of some dim immensity, inscrutable and implacable...
...9 One of TV's most illustrious hysterics, Mr...
...Tom Muzila, have actually tracked the odoriferous creature with divining rods...
...To follow up on a story reported in our May issue, Mr...
...9 In fashion news, the eminent Herb Caen reports that Mr...
...Female garbage-truck drivers and gung ho gals sweating out the nineto-five might be La Smeal's view of the just society, but all this huffing and puffing is not for those of us who know that life in America is lived best after 8 p.m...
...9 New Yorkers raised the drinking age to nineteen...
...Phyllis Schlafly as their Julius Caesar, saved us from the unisex commode...
...Buena Park, California remains in a pother over reports that an eight-foot-tall, man-like creature lives in the city's sewer system...
...Ever since rumors of the creature's strange life-style began circulating Buena Vistans have been peeping under manhole covers, and two, Mr...
...Mrs...
...According to the Youth News, post-Maoist hep cats wearing Western T-shirts with such English language messages as "Kiss Me" are guilty of "ignorance, exhibitionism, and spiritual pollution...
...There were also the wizards of the Spring Peace Camorra who have kept our sharp-eyed investigative journalists befuddled all season by the suggestio falsi that the peace movement comprehends all species of Americano...
...Demonstrators barred the entrance to the United Nations missions of the five atomic powers, and in Lake Arthur, New Mexico the multitudes kept coming to the Shrine of the Holy Tortilla...
...Mentry, who weighs 220 pounds, is accused of killing her eight-year-old son with her own arse...
...As her Mercedes pulled away from the prison, a car full of gaga aarabinieri seeking a closer look rammed her...
...This time it is the powerful Bickel family of Angola, Indiana, and they have sent the Reagans a fantastic jellybean lamp...
...In truth it was defeated by the American mainstream that recognized the rancorous Women of the Fevered Brow for the swinish radicals they so often are...
Vol. 15 • August 1982 • No. 8
