Current Wisdom
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...February 1983] The Ann Arbor News Three shapely feminist saintssomewhat hinged at the heels and allegedly homicidal-are stuffed and exalted by a hagiographer from the feminist fevers: Three women have vaulted to notoriety through legal dramas in recent years: Jean Harris, the jilted murderer of her long-time lover...
...Enrique Dussel adds, is in conflict with American foreign policy in the region...
...The revolution that was suppressed in Poland won in Nicaragua three years ago, and it still survives and believes in its future...
...He likes the West Coast style and so he asked Carl Longley, president of B&B, for a taste of home...
...B&B Caterers of Distinction's Menu Ginger Chicken Tenderloin Salted Almonds Cold Tomato Boullion with Sorrel Grilled California golden Trout (lemon caper sauce) Asparagus Beurre Blanc Chateau St...
...Polish Pope-Wojtyla...
...It hit me when I realized I wouldn't take myself out or go to bed with me," he said...
...The nails for the Cross of Jesus," he declared, "are 'Made in the USA...
...Beyond the issue of guilt or innocence, each of these women has touched the personal concerns of other women because each speaks to some aspect of the condition of women everywhere...
...In his 33 years of catering, Longley has done parties for Democrats-Truman and Kennedy-as well as for a California Republican named Reagan...
...We are finding people want problems solved in natural ways...
...C U R R E N T W I S D O M The Nation A potpourri of preposterosity put together by West German novelist Ganter Grass after a child's tour of Sandinist Nicaragua conducted by indigenous mesmerists...
...We arrived with no fixed ideas about Nicaragua, and we left, eight days later, deeply changed...
...In a few moments my headache disappeared...
...That force, Dr...
...The American representative at the United Nations called the resettlement of 'the Miskitos "genocide...
...I am a professional historian who has spent the last thirty years studying the phenomenon of military power...
...April18, 1983] Harper's Flashes of apocalypse fired in the mind of Prof...
...Jean (1981 Fume Blanc) Ruby lettuce and Watercress (walnut oil dressing) Glac6ed Oranges with Candied Orange Peel Palmiers and Chocolate Truffles Schramsberg Blanc de Blanc Coffee [March 1983] Open Education Exchange (Berkeley, California) Dr...
...His California menu costs $80 a person...
...February 22, 1983] Commonweal Dr...
...At the time, Britt sincerely believed this was God's punishment for his homosexuality...
...Many women, especially in rural Kenya ignorant of their rights, have accepted the role of beasts of burden assigned to them by their husbands...
...The Third Tootsie goes, appropriately enough, to Dustin Hoffman, who, after passing as a woman in the film that gave our awards their name, can't stop talking about how much he would like to be a woman...
...January 14, 1983] The Washington Dossier Miss Doris Deakin of Dossier maga zine in a discourse on the difference between a mundane and memorable luncheon" divulges a populist favor ite from Charles T. Manatt, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the party with the big heart and the lumpen proletariat always in mind: Californian Charles T. (Chuck) Manatt is chairman of the Democratic National Committee, so many powerful Democrats and fellow golden staters show up for lunch at his Georgetown home...
...Thanks to our friend Ronald Reagan, it is easy to find people who feel alienated these days," he says...
...That is a lie, and it comes from a country that was founded on stolen land and genocide of Indians...
...1983] Indianapolis Star Euphuism launched to the farthest regions of the absurd by an adept of Molotov cocktail theology: The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is "ab stract" to Americans, but to the poor in Latin America it is a political force, says an exiled Argentinian theologian...
...In Nicaragua, the misinformation spread by Tass, the Soviet news agency, that Solidarity is counterrevolutionary is believed...
...No other Third World country employs such methods, which are modeled after those used in Scandinavia...
...America's aggressions, like those of the Soviet Union, have become pervasive, and they can no...
...April11, 1983] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1983 43...
...March 12, 1983] The McGill Daily The McGill Daily, conscience of McGill University, features another report of New Age heroism: When Harry Britt was a young school student, he experienced his first crush on another boy...
...far more frightened than I am by the nuclear arsenals themselves or the various proposals for their use...
...I am an Englishman whose youth was passed in watching the dreadful onset of totalitarianism in Europe, and whose young manhood was passed in fighting it...
...As I understand Christ's teachings, that revolution should be yours...
...He threatens his parishioners with excommunication and foments strife within the church...
...and Ginny Foat, head of California's NOW chapter, facing extradition charges to Louisiana on a 17-year-old charge of killing a man with a tire iron...
...Whether I would encounter the same phenomenon in the Soviet Union, I do not know...
...Imagine that Lech Walesa and Ernesto Cardenal, the worker and the poet-priest, are sitting at your dinner table...
...I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast-feed," he told one interviewer...
...There is no capital punishment in Nicaragua, and the Sandinists at least attempt to impose humane punishments...
...Wrapping my arms around that pine I felt its strength on my body, and I fully opened my heart to its power...
...Almost to the end it protected and bolstered with economic aid the murderous Somoza...
...assays the celluloid biography of a quack, and a vicious one at that: Gandhi is the movie the British deserve about India, just as Apocalypse Now was the one we deserved about Vietnam...
...Hoffman also said the fact that he wasn't terribly cute in drag made him realize how rotten men can be...
...The Tootsie is given to a man who, in his efforts to understand and empathize with women, goes one step beyond and, in one or two cases, right over the edge...
...But when I hear some of my American friends speak of that country, when I note how their eyes glaze over, their voices drop an octave, and they grind out the words the Soviets in tones of gravelly hatred, I become really frightened...
...Britt says all exploited people-gays and lesbians, women, disabled people, racial minorities-have been taught they have no power...
...I have noted the appetite of powerful states for more power to protect themselves, and the edge ideology can give to that appetite...
...I do not think I have any illusions about the Soviet Union...
...Exploited people are coming together with the gay community...
...The U. S. government is not morally entitled to condemn the Soviet Union's aggression in Afghanistan or its pressure on Poland...
...And officiating at holy unions for same-sex couples...
...Michael Howard as he exits the company of his he-man American friends: Let me at this stage explain my own position...
...It was this mood that brought British and Germans to fight one another in 1914: to show one another who was master...
...I loved it all, and the fumes, and the roar as the bikers peeled off and sped up the highway...
...Will you understand that Sandinism and Solidarity have common roots-though I admit that the people of Nicaragua and Poland are not aware of them yet...
...Roxanne Pulitzer, the errant wife of the Pulitzer heir...
...Actually, as I see now, Solidarity and the Sandinists have much in common...
...Many uneducated African men honestly can hardly differentiate between a wife and a cow or any other inanimate possession...
...November 15, 1982] Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Diane White pokes at and lampoons one of Hollywood's capital minds: The first annual Tootsie awards are awarded to certain men in the public eye who deserve to be called Honorary Women...
...February 13, 19831 Daily Nation (Nairobi) A leading Third World beacon sheds its light on provinces that know not the wisdom of Alan Alda: The brutal behaviour of the man who cut off both the ears and nose of his wife and got only two years imprisonment and five strokes is unfortunately not unique...
...January 10, 1983] Unitarian Universalist World Cameos religious in nature from the Rev...
...I recall one lesbian service where some were men and vice versa, and all inter-racial, with stunning costumes and cosmetics and harp players and strange physicalities (one bridesmaid showed me her tattoo, a green, purple and roseate snake that went like a boa from her left shoulder all around her neck and down to her belly button...
...This attitude seems to arise less out of any objective assessment of Soviet capabilities, problems, and intentions than from a dark, visceral need to assert masculinity...
...longer be excused as stupidity...
...Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...But wars begin in the minds of men, and in many American minds the flames of war seem already to have taken a very firm hold...
...Within six months of their first kiss, though, the boy died of cancer...
...The Archbishop of Managua has been outspoken in his opposition to the Sandinists...
...Clarke D. Wells, interim minis ter of the Unitarian Church of Santa Barbara, California and author of Sunshine and Rain at Once and doubtless occasional evangels on men's room walls: As onetime chaplain of the Albert Schweitzer Motorcycle Club in Cincinnati, I performed marriages in parking lots with 25 motorcyclists, including the bride and groom, on their bikes, who'd rev up their machines as I brought my robed arms down in benediction...
...Stephen Weinreb, M.D., reveals the amazing results of his New Age researches: I recalled the time I woke up with a fierce headache, and when nothing helped I went to the UC experimental pine grove on San Pablo Avenue and carefully selected a tree...
...It was all a wild and dignified banquet of people I didn't know existed...
Vol. 16 • July 1983 • No. 7
