Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series In an anthology indispensable to fevered brows, the happily nulliparous Miss Erica Jong improves upon The Rape of the Lock: Castration of the Pen The pen is...
...Kristin Leavenworth [July 1985...
...Surely I had not thought of nature as female...
...Richard Cohen: . . . there's a touch of ethnocentric arrogance in not recognizing that the Shiite fundamentalists have their counterparts in this country...
...No flies can settle on this smirking countenance Don't you know, the face seems to ask, that the world is a dangerous place...
...Numerous methods have been described in the medical literature, the most popular of which appears to be placement of mineral oil in the canal and subsequent manual removal of the creature...
...It is curious...
...We women need to concentrate not on censoring porn, which takes antisocial turns when driven underground, but rather on developing our own pornographic language...
...A fleet-footed intern promptly applied an equally time-tested remedy and killed the creature using the simple crush method...
...Here, too, there are those who denounce the secular state, call for abolishing the public schools, yearn for so-called traditional values, would make religion a prerequisite for true citizenship, reject the fruits of the intellect (Darwin and his insights on our origins...
...The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The TYadition in English...
...It explores the cunts of girls...
...Porn is the graphic, explicit portrayal of people engaged in various sex acts, including exhibitionism...
...He's Allyn Con-well of Houston, spokesman for the hostages in the happily concluded hostage crisis...
...A so-called polished diplomat couldn't have said it better...
...they are downright down home...
...No more contaminated slides, offbeat results, distracting fluctuations, or smudges that might mean something but usually meant only another week of wasted work...
...I think we all need to find a deeper understanding of the circumstances that led up to people taking a desperate act, and if we do that, that is without a doubt in my mind the surest way of finding a solution to the international terrorist dilemma...
...CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series In an anthology indispensable to fevered brows, the happily nulliparous Miss Erica Jong improves upon The Rape of the Lock: Castration of the Pen The pen is an index finger which has learned to give milk like a breast...
...Jackson said...
...Those who explore the world of human sexuality with respect usually make the juiciest, most erotic porn...
...casts them in drama as victims of violence or brutal constraint (" . . . and they deserved it...
...It doesn't hurt, by the way, that Conwell looks a bit like Roger Moore as James Bond...
...It can suckle babies with the bluest, blackest milk...
...It writes bad lines & writes good ones without caring & leaves you to sort out the mess...
...We recognized immediately that fate had granted us the opportunity for an elegant comparative therapeutic trial...
...Haven't you read The Gulag Archipelago...
...Now this last element is tricky because there is a legitimate subcategory of porn known as S & M (sadism and masochism), B & D (bondage and discipline) being a variant, consisting of slave-master fantasies where each participant has tacitly agreed to the scope of his/her role...
...In this instance, at least, he achieved it...
...You don't say, 'Let me free so I can destroy you.' You say, 'Let me free so we can re-evaluate our relationship.'" [June 26, 1985] New England Journal of Medicine An inspiring scientific advance, particularly important as the 1960s Haight Ashbury generation reaches middle age, reported in the neoconservative NEJM: A recent case seen in an emergency department of a large urban hospital may have finally settled the tormenting and age-old question concerning the best method of removing Periplaneta americana, the common cockroach, from the ear canal...
...There was something out there-to surround, trap, and force into neat, linear patterns of reproducible results...
...that would have been far too confusing for one of the few women above the rank of lab tech at Rockefeller University...
...At that same moment I understood something about the world of science and scientists: underneath the cold commitment to facts, the affectless objectivity, there was the thrill of the chase...
...In the opposite ear we sprayed 2 per cent lidocaine solution...
...July 2, 1985] Ms...
...woman of science: One night many years ago, when I was a fledgling scientist in the laboratory working late among the silent racks of test tubes, I was suddenly gripped by the sense that I was not alone...
...The cockroach succumbed after a valiant but futile struggle, but its removal required much dexterity on the part of the house officer...
...Their passions are not inexplicable...
...July 6/13, 1985] New York Times The Rev...
...Cut it off...
...It explores & tells...
...A patient recently presented with a cockroach in both ears...
...Aren't you aware that you can't demonstrate for nuclear disarmament in the Soviet Union...
...McCarty adds that the militiamen who guarded him particularly liked his olive-drab fatigue pants and tank-top shirts...
...Don't you want America to be strong...
...For Americans to think that this sort of thing is limited to the Shiites of Iran and Lebanon, or the Sunnis of the Sudan and Pakistan, is not only blind ethnocentrism but also dangerous...
...He and a traveling companion, Victor Amburgy, 31, a former letter xarrier who also lives in San Francisco, posed as brothers to conceal the facts that they are homosexuals...
...Norton, 1985] The Nation Righteous indignation from the quixotic Christopher Hitchens, riding his nag through a convention of the Social Democrats USA: Your typical Social Democrat has a wised-up, pitying manner...
...It endorses checks from almost anyone...
...X-rated misogynist material, like its R- and PG-rated cousins, makes women look stupid or aesthetically unappealing...
...W.W...
...You are looking at someone, he seems to say, who has left illusions behind him...
...Yet I had to recognize the aggression, the covert rush of sadism, which is not idiosyncratic to late-night lab workers or impatient grad students but lies at the very heart of modern science...
...The Shi'ites have a stern attitude toward homosexuality and, says McCarty, "Had they known, we could have been killed...
...Scholarly reflections from the bidet: As a fledgling pornographer (director of "The Adventures of Rick Quick") I must take issue with my antiporn sisters' somewhat reductive definition of porn as the "graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women...
...By this time you have gathered that the pen's a symbol...
...edited by Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar...
...Or is it penis...
...the roach exited the canal at a convulsive rate of speed and attempted to escape across the floor...
...Conwell's wife, interviewed back home, said "Allyn has always strived for excellence...
...But unlike your finger or your breast your pen is fickle...
...The history was otherwise noncontributory...
...S & M and misogynist porn sometimes overlap, but any porno aesthete can tell the difference...
...June 29, 1985] Mother Jones More inscrutable scratchings from the lovely Miss Barbara Ehrenreich...
...July 17, 1985] Washington Post Anthropological plumbings from Dr...
...It is nourishing...
...Ever heard of the boat people...
...If I'm ever in a major jam, I want him around...
...pictures them-as unsavory characters (born bad...
...Is it breast...
...He and his fellow hostages may have been briefed to say only cordial things about their captors, in which case Conwell is an excellent actor, too...
...The best pornography is erotic-'erotic" being that elusive quality that turns you on...
...I believed him when he said he had learned much of value from seeing the other side of the picture and that "I don't seek retaliation or revenge...
...Like the rest of you, I can only judge by his on-camera performance, but he came across as cool, intelligent, dignified and well-spoken...
...Jackson's remarks, however, criticized the Reagan Administration's handling of the hostage crisis in Lebanon...
...It is logical, can do research, can put its tip against your piglike nose, can even say FUCK YOU...
...uses them as props instead of participative consenting adults...
...They thought that was real macho," says he...
...The pornography that feminists find most offensive is really an illegitimate sub-category of porn-misogynist pornography-that treats women, as a class, with contempt...
...Jesse Jackson applies his street smarts to the geopolitical scene: Many of Mr...
...It is clever, has an endless store an anecdotes & fables...
...July 1985] San Francisco Chronicle Even more New Age maudlinism, this time from Herb Caen, San Francisco's legendary columnist: I HAVE A NEW HERO...
...Having visions of a medical breakthrough assuredly worthy of subsequent publication in the Journal, we placed the time-tested mineral oil in one ear canal...
...More recently, lido-caine spray has been suggested as a more effective approach to this problem...
...to see a relentless observer get hold of Nature and squeeze her until the sweat broke out all over her and Sphincters loosened...
...Most porn is not particularly erotic, mainly because its own producers regard the genre with contempt...
...Not Moore...
...The response was immediate...
...At about this point, and to distract myself from the overmastering desire to slap the face, I imagine myself demonstrating for nuclear disarmament in the Soviet Union and being locked up by someone with precisely those features and that tone of voice...
...Any 6-year-old from the South Bronx or Bed-Stuy knows if somebody's got a knife at your throat and you say, 'When you let me up, I'm going to kill you,' then they're not going to let you up," Mr...
...An imp, maybe, but not a harridan...
...It writes speeches for two rival politicians...
...Years later, when that epiphany had faded almost as completely as the memory of gel chromatography and radioim-munoassays, I came across the following explanation by the eminent 19th-century physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., of his appreciation of science: "I liked...
...Freud and his insights on our behavior) and would, within the cultural context of the West, limit the rights of women...
...Conwell...
...There was something there, I realized, and I was going to beat it...
...May 2, 1985] Time A note on style from San Francisco to Beirut: John McCarty, 40, San Francisco, restaurant manager...
Vol. 18 • September 1985 • No. 9
