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Pro Wrestling Illustrated A learned epistle in the correspondence section of a respected cultural review, Pro Wrestling Illustrated, the grapplers' Bible: About two months ago, I was watching...
...and Great Britain advocated sanctions of the strongest sort be taken against Nazi Germany...
...Let the glad cry ring forth from bastion to bastion in the United States: "Yesterday three kids in a peasant's compound in the hills...
...Shearer's potent "Intelligence Report": Fifty years ago, when Ronald Reagan was 25 and Margaret Thatcher was 10, Adolf Hitler hastened his persecution of the Jews in Germany...
...Daniel Ortega in his closing remarks at the recent meeting of nonaligned nations held in booming Harare, Zimbabwe: We are for independence, freedom, justice, respect for humanity, dedication to peace and progress and against imperialism, colonialism, neocolonialism, apartheid, racism, Zionism, and all forms of aggression, occupation, domination, hegemonism, and foreign influence...
...Adrian Adonis was being interviewed by Vince McMahon...
...Tolerance for and acceptance of gay rights and a matter-of-fact acknowledgment of the full humanity of gay men and lesbian women is still desperately needed in American culture Religious fanatics, these self-proclaimed real estate brokers of heaven, pronounce their hateful disdain for all who are different or who depart from their narrow dogma...
...But Dynasty's Heather Locklear married Motley Crue's Tommy Lee anyway—for better and for worse—at the Santa Barbara Biltmore last month...
...August 30, 1986] Humanist Cultural criticism gets serious at a worthy journal of neotericism...
...That's unusual in the gay world, [where] people usually don't speak to each other after they break up...
...August 14, 1986...
...The Crue will return to their "normal" habits and habitats— recording their next LP, due late fall—once the honeymoon is over and after Vince has served his month-long jail sentence for vehicular manslaughter...
...Adrian is indisputably a very tough man...
...Surprisingly, their wedding was a formal sedate affair, Crue member Nikki Six was a well-mannered best man, and fellow group members Vince Nell and Mick Mars were attentive ushers...
...and managed emotion in which tiny humanoid beings intervene to correct our inability to feel, love, hug, and care Along with these go a pervasive sense of nuclear anxiety, an uneasiness with science and technology bordering on paranoia, and a stance of passivity in which humans are shown to be totally resourceless and must rely on nonhuman creatures to help, nurture, and defend them...
...They like his style, the turquoise watch band matching the tiny lapis in his earlobe...
...Drug abuse is not a very healthy antidote to the debilitating system, but it is an immediately available one, and you cannot remove the one without changing the other...
...Vince was even teetotahng all day...
...Adrian Adonis is to be congratulated for his political and social courage...
...I reach between two soldiers and touch him wishing to say farewell to this young man I never met...
...Adrian, on camera, admitted to being gay...
...Sam R. Hope [June 1986] Sunday Telegraph The Third World whoop-whoop intoned andante con brio by Sr...
...As a Constitutional lawyer, devoting my hfe to civil liberties, I was overjoyed at Adrian's revelation...
...Sam R. Hope, the unworthy and the inconsolable: His casket is covered with wildflowers picked from the field where he was killed...
...And then there arises from this formation a martial chant at once and unmistakably translatable as "Gimme an E, gimme an M, gimme an A . . . . " The uniforms ale pin-striped: what confronts the visitor's shuddering eye is the terrible presence of the Little League baseball team of the barrio of Emaor...
...People who oppose meaningful sanctions against the Botha regime in South Africa should not forget the awful price of that appeasement...
...Virtually every living creature in Sodom could have been ailing as the result of imbibing some local toxin, and only the itinerant among them— Lot, the king, caravan merchants—remaining physically and socially healthy...
...Well-intentioned but mistaken government officials in Lx)ndon and Washington, however, believed that such reprisals would prove counterproductive and drive the Nazis to wreak further revenge on the Jews...
...July 3, 1986] Mother Jones Immensities proffered to the subverbal hysterics who read Mother Jones between trips to the herbal tea shoppe and the drug therapy center: Several vivid urges and anxieties leap from the screen of the supwrshow to which children's commercial TV adds up: an explosive release of aggression as superheroes and robotic saviors solve all human problems while playing with fantasy versions of the Reagan military budget...
...The only way to tell this was a rock & roll wedding was the spectacle of Tommy chewing gum as he walked down the aisle...
...Summer 1986] Presbyterian Survey Presbyterian poetry for the New Age by Mr...
...August 7, 1986] New York Review of Books The incessantly lachrymose Murray Kempton sniffles and snorts his way through the Sandinistas' Nicaragua only to discover that the hellish contras are warring against Little League: In EsteU one Sunday morning, the sound of a drum is heard and a column of children approaches...
...August 31, 1986] Washington Post On the "Style" page of the Washington Post, New Age anthropologist Art Harris applies himself to his discipline for the advancement of human knowledge: MIAMI—He's tall and trim, hke some GQ model in jeans and bright Perry Ellis shirt, unbuttoned to the waist, as he sweeps from behind the bar to hug an ex-lover who has dropped in to say hello...
...At the time, many anti-fascists in the U.S...
...A most reliable barometer for measuring the level of tolerance and enUghtened benevolence of a given society is the degree of magnanimity offered to those with sexual preferences that are at variance with the majority of people who compose the society...
...Pro Wrestling Illustrated A learned epistle in the correspondence section of a respected cultural review, Pro Wrestling Illustrated, the grapplers' Bible: About two months ago, I was watching the WWF's TNT telecast...
...For the public to have to perceive such a fierce fighter in the context of being gay is for the public to have to acknowledge that great physical prowess can accompany avowed homosexuality...
...September 1986] Judaism Old Sodom seen in the light of modern science: If virtually every living creature was wicked, they could not have dwelt together in towns...
...He was 21...
...At last we see the beginnings of a true literature for men...
...One of the pallbearers, perhaps sixteen, rifle strapped to his back, forces back his tears and his anger I am unworthy to share these moments because I paid the contras to kill him...
...More importantly, it is a book of poetry in the true sense of the word—the language is pure, inspired, beautiful...
...It was a major romance...
...In a climate of expanding fundamentalism and the accompanying horror of religious intolerance, it is heartening to see someone like Adrian Adonis force the public to dispense with its stereotyped notions of gay people...
...He exudes energy, a warm smile...
...I venture to suggest that the problem was one of public health rather than of public depravity, medical rather than moral...
...It's midafternoon off busy U.S...
...tomorrow the Little League team from Emaor...
...Lloyd Shearer, in Mr...
...August 21, 1986] Nation From the authoritative Nation comes the unwelcome news that coke and capitalism are Siamese twins and urgent surgery is needed: Psychological escape, self-destructive rebellion and antisocial activity are built into the system of competition, greed and authoritarianism that the Reagan revolution promotes...
...But when his mother told him to ditch it, he complied...
...As editors of Men Talk, Elliot Fried and Barry Singer have done us a wonderful service Their poetry anthology is a profound book about men's experiences and should be required reading for any men's studies course...
...I was 18 when we met," says his ex, elbows on the bar...
...Everyone is speaking to Michael Hardwick these days, the new symbol of gay rights denied in a straight world—even though he lost his fight over Georgia's sodomy law after taking it all the way to the Supreme Court...
...Children very much hke these were killed in a contra raid not twenty miles from Esteli three weeks before, and now, in its ineffable poltroonery, the Congress of the United States has tripled the subsidy that bought this milestone on the march to Nicaragua's redemption and will now speed the business along three times as fast and three times as far...
...We were goo-goo-eyed . . . "We were together 18 months, then became best friends...
...No effective measures were therefore enacted, and the Holocaust ensued...
...May/June 1986] Rolling Stone A touching social note, offered up lovingly in a journal for the culturally advanced: Their courtship could have been the video for Joe Jackson's old song "Is She Really Going Out with Him...
...Men's Studies, indeed!: This book, despite its small size, effectively addresses nearly every issue pertinent to men's liberation...
...1 here, where he tends bar and sets a mean hors d'oeuvre tray for happy hour Soon customers will be pushing through the door, searching out love in the cool darkness, hiding out from the heat and the hate, and if they are regulars he will have their drinks waiting...
...Here in full force can only be the armed New Man grown from dragon's teeth planted by the revolution...
...But what if they were sick...
...The result is that people will have a greater respect for gay individuals...
...As a lifelong wrestling fan, I am proud that my favorite form of sports-entertainment is at the cutting edge of social change —Edward Tabash Beverly Hills, CA [August 1986] Parade The lessons of history tellingly laid out by Senator Lugar's bootblack, Mr...
...In sum, it leaves us with a TVgenerated vision of Americans as a nation of over-armed, trigger-happy, grasping, anxious, and love-starved people who feel deeply sorry for themselves and beleaguered in the world—something, that is, of a selfportrait of the Reagan era...
...unfettered acquisitionism as advertisers pull out all the stops to induce kids to really want...
Vol. 19 • November 1986 • No. 11
