The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS *November, and autumn folds into remorseless winter. Ciao to summer-time hopes and autumnal reveries. For some the change is bracing, and for others of delicate disposition it...
...Such an extension might "effectively nullify the entire procedure" squawks Mr...
...Kennedy, however, Mr...
...There he narrated a shocking tale of CIA skullduggery...
...Miss Geraldine Ferraro has copped the 1985 J. Gordon Coogler Award for the Worst Book of the Year despite the imbecilic efforts of Mr...
...Cohn does die, his friends will be wise to bury him securely, lest the ghouls who pursue him snatch his body...
...Kremlinologists of the Samantha Smith school thought of the impending summit and their bosoms caught fire, but for Admiral Stansfield Turner the episode must have evoked a festival in the heart...
...Alternately, it is possible that a homosexual rights group could devise a prophylactic for the tongue, thus bringing the era of safe sex ever closer...
...Then there was that great moral drama provided by the bar panel of New York's Fust Judicial Department, composed from top to bottom of moral colossi, intellectual giants, career reformers, the kind of horses' asses who brag of their decency and compassion...
...Worse, Mr...
...The Betty Friedans of the movement warn against what they call unsafe sex, that is: sexual congress that allows "the exchange of bodily fluids...
...Most celebrated of all the global worthies' public acts was the purchase by the Sandinista royals, Mr...
...They grouse that the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court has given Mr...
...Actually, the King was a nitwit...
...Roy M. Cohn a congeries of charges, which had lain dormant for years...
...I think slowly but surely people are realizing he wasn't such an ogre as they made out...
...That is to say, he fears the crafty Mr...
...If an actor or actress suspects he or she is about to be em-braced by a poofter, the scene can be nixed...
...There was summit-mania and all its concomitant flummery...
...Cohn never made a timely left-turn when anti-Americanism replaced anti-Communism as the cheap act of the upwardly-aspiring...
...Former Senator Harrison Williams, Democrat of New Jersey, was transferred from prison to a halfway house, his prison term on an Abscam bribery conviction being almost finished...
...Now he has liver cancer, and his pursuers anguish over the possibility that this cancer, once their ally for having weakened him, may become their enemy by killing him before he can be dragged into court...
...Robert F. Kennedy...
...Washington, D.C.'s General Nutrition Center was closed for a day due to severe mouse infestation, and Ronald Reagan returned from his Geneva summit with his reputation as a charmer intact...
...Every living human is the consequence of such an act...
...Then two fetuses were produced to the assembled humanitarians and the applause grew rabid...
...The Lady, Mrs...
...But what is so unsafe about that...
...There was a glorious stock market rally, and the government of the United States almost went broke, putting donkey ears and a tail on those carpe diem economists of yore whose maxim was "We owe it to ourselves...
...Cohn's precipitous death...
...Walter Mondale in his heroic 1984 presidential campaign...
...The Royal couple performed flawlessly and accomplished their mission on November 10, when the Prince enunciated a carefully crafted propaganda message, asserting that "King George II had a bit of a raw deal in history...
...If Mr...
...Cohn remains an anomaly among Manhattan's elite, a patriot ardent to praise America even over apiritifs...
...The present program places utopia many years down the road and acknowledges that the route to it will be "uneven, complex and controversial"—that is to say, not unlike the route to prosperity laid out by Mr...
...Richard Reeves, author of The Reagan Detour, and Miss Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, author of Elvis and Me...
...In Moscow, the first Soviet Communist Party program in twenty-four years made an unusually somber appearance, such programs having heretofore been abundant with hope and economic flapdoodle...
...Cohn until January to rebut their case...
...Stuart Chase, coiner of the phrase "New Deal," died, as did the Chicken Wing Lady of Buffalo, New York...
...Early in the month Mr...
...During November they suddenly were faced with hostility from the Screen Actors Guild, which has pronounced that ac-tors must be allowed to treat kissing scenes as they would dangerous stunts and nude scenes...
...Cohn is the lawyer who once assisted the legendary Senator Joseph McCarthy along with the likes of Mr...
...Allen's alleged faux pas was robbery...
...Months ago this' fabulous collection of Manhattanite Robespierres revived against Mr...
...Miss Ferraro's swell book is Ferraro: My Story, and in it one will discover that kapitalist, misogynist America was at once thrilled by her and out to do her in...
...Daniel Ortega, of twelve pairs of designer eyeglasses for $3,500...
...Unlike Mr...
...Perhaps the homosexuals are trying to ingratiate themselves to Planned Parenthood, Inc...
...MI-6 has its agents everywhere, perhaps even at The American Spectator where the undisguisedly British accents of Tom Bethell and John O'Sullivan are beginning to raise eyebrows...
...The gals should get over their worries, however, once the probation officer is beautified by modern medical science...
...Vitaly S. Yurchenko, the highly prized KGB defector, shook free from a CIA "handler," who apparently was force-feeding him at Au Pied de Cochon in Georgetown, and vamoosed to the nearby Soviet Embassy...
...Cohn has already triumphed by displaying nobility in affliction and exposing the smallness of his sanctimonious enemies, goody-goodies who manifest anew the old truth that nothing is more corrosive to goodness than a surfeit of virtue easily procured...
...Senator Edward Kennedy has announced that he will seek the presidency in 1988 come hell or high water, high water has been his problem in the past...
...Barry Allen, 19, pleased the New York Post when he became the third of Mr...
...Never before had so many heads of state gathered in one place, nor so many limousines and security men...
...Yet even the wimps should have found November thrilling...
...Eugene Ionesco for creative writing and to Professor Robert Nisbet for scholarly letters, some of which over the years appeared in these pages...
...and the wowsers of sex education...
...And in Spain, indigenous feminists held a national convention to protest that country's harsh abortion laws...
...And women laboring in San Francisco's Hall of Justice are increasingly uncomfortable in that building's ladies' rooms, which are also being used by a male probation officer awaiting a sex-change operation...
...On November 22 the Ingersoll Prizes were awarded to Mr...
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...In New York State, the popularity of high school wrestling skyrocketed when the State Board of Regents voted to allow girls to compete with boys in what had heretofore been considered contact sports...
...Bernhard Goetz's youthful victims to be jugged for felonious misadventure...
...and Mrs...
...No one in our heavily infiltrated media refuted the Prince's nonsense...
...There was defection-mania...
...Three thousand of the benevolent gals turned out to applaud as two of their number under-went abortions off stage to protest the status quo...
...He played the harpsichord despite doctor's orders and at a time when urban life could be deafening, what with horse-drawn vehicles clattering along cobbled streets and every gentleman's powdered wig evoking fortissimos from his wife's prodigious beak...
...leressa Bellissimo, died as she had lived, inhaling the pungent vapors of her world-famous chicken wings somewhere in the vast confines of her Anchor Bar and Restaurant, an alimentary palace founded in 1940 by her and her late husband...
...The United Nations celebrated its Fortieth Anniversary in orgies that delighted every anarchist on the globe...
...While on the subject of royals, British intelligence activated agents through-out the Republic's communications networks to boom the arrival of the Prince of Wales and his blonde wife...
...For some the change is bracing, and for others of delicate disposition it is a cruel jolt...
...The homosexual community still struggles against what has become a dreadful public relations problem, AIDS...
...Forget not that Admiral Turner, as Jimmy Carter's CIA director, anguished over reports that the pre-Carter CIA was wont to incarcerate KGB defectors and to treat their per-sons rudely...
...Michael Gentile, the panel's chief counsel...
...Actually, Mr...
...Admiral Turner fumigated the place, and now the improved CIA takes KGB agents to continental restaurants and does not complain when they skip out on the bill...
Vol. 19 • January 1986 • No. 1
