Current Wisdom
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CURRENT WISDOM New York Times Book Review In the scholarly precincts of an esteemed book review, signs of intellectual fireworks with significant consequences to the life of the mind as...
...The trained bird was very special, I felt her spirit...
...Take the [California] water shortage ten years ago," he says...
...It's fascinating when you think about it...
...Of course, they took no notice but the shock and horror at the treatment of a very young fellow quite spoiled the day...
...Digby Orchard, NSW, Australia...
...Absolutely...
...That includes our political culture...
...The name change came in the late 60's during the filming of Frank and Eleanor Perry's "Last Summer," in which Miss Hershey gave a multilayered performance as a teen-age viper who is part flirt, part con artist and part psychotic: a dangerous temptress capable of coolly bashing in the brains of a seagull that she once befriended...
...In the past she has held on to her belief in "the power of literature, and also in the politics of literature" to transcend the silences of an unfair society and speak the perpetually unspoken...
...We've produced a new kind of person, a new-minded person...
...and he told me on the last throw she had broken her neck...
...She argues persuasively in her new book that many Americans are individual addicts of one kind or another who are living in an addictive society...
...March 29, 1987] Progressive Poesy from J. Gordonovich Kooglerovsky, Kremlin poet laureate: Q: Are you saying that writers and poets prepared the way for Gorbachev...
...Or maybe they do, and they're just not talking...
...At that moment I felt her soul enter me...
...Tisch does not own that company...
...Rooney, the "60 Minutes" commentator, said he sat at home Friday night thinking about the dismissal of one of his colleagues, Ike Pappas, who had covered the world for CBS News for 22 years, "and I was just too sick to think about it...
...We didn't work in gloves...
...February 4, 19871 Manchester Guardian Weekly How Margaret's day was spoiled, as told in the groans column of the Manchester Guardian Weekly, an omnium gatherum of socialist hysterics: On a recent visit to Devon, driving through a lane some three miles from Lympstone, we passed a group of Marine trainees...
...But curator Joani Blank talks candidly about the nation's only museum of personal vibrators...
...Rooney said over the weekend...
...She also personified a free spirit off screen when she moved in with the actor David Carradine, had a baby out of wedlock named Free, and changed her name to Barbara Seagull...
...They were students—some of them were students squeezing without tickets on the balcony of our poetry readings...
...That's the way I feel...
...My favorite magazine says exercise isn't fun (pull in your gut, straighten your spine, breathe...
...No one at the city's Convention and Visitors Bureau even knows it exists...
...March 14, 1987] New York Times Upon the sacking of 215 people at CBS by Mr...
...CURRENT WISDOM New York Times Book Review In the scholarly precincts of an esteemed book review, signs of intellectual fireworks with significant consequences to the life of the mind as lived in this new Athens that we call Amerika: Adrienne Rich's essays have always stressed revelation, the arduous probing of her feminism, her lesbianism, her Jewishness, her own white bourgeois "privilege," her ambivalent emotions about mothers, both black and white...
...Q: You mean you think that the poetry of your generation is the political soul of the new leadership...
...Nevertheless, particularly in regard to black women, herein subsumed under the currently fashionable label "women of color" (which to me sounds like a perfume), Ms...
...Theirs are the neglected voices of our society, yet the ones that must most be heard, that still might be able to save the earth, if anything can, from its impending ecocide...
...I'm sure...
...The flag is described as red, white and blue, having 50 stars and was valued at $40...
...Kirkpatrick Sale, certain to fetch enthusiasm at the offices of Senator Joseph Biden, Governor Bruce Babbitt, the Hon...
...Laurence A. Tisch, that network's chief executive officer, one of the greatest American writers of this century responds analytically and eloquently: Mr...
...This guy Tisch put his money in this company...
...March 13, 1987] Mother Jones Mr...
...But we had to reshoot the scene over and over...
...If I say this, it sounds immodest, but I hope so...
...I listen to them and huff and puff (almost) happily...
...17 and 11:30 a.m...
...A few yards behind came a straggler...
...It's Ike's company more than it is Tisch's company...
...April 1987] Nation A stirring vow from Dr...
...March 18, 1987] Windsor-Hights Herald All the news that's fit to print and then some, from the police blotter of a hardworking gazette: Unknown person(s) stole the American flag from its pole in Etra Park sometime between 3 p.m...
...and takes time you'd rather spend with a pal or a book but a firm body is the next best thing to gorgeous and may be even better...
...Rich's latest pronouncements collapse into a reductive sociology...
...Gary Hartpence, Congressman Richard Gephardtpence, and John Hinckley, Esq.: In the course of the next few months I hope to bring you some reports of those who are engaged in the cutting-edge ideas of the New Age—theorists and activists, scholars and technicians, people working in areas ranging from perma-culture to homeopathy, bioregionalism to shamanism, Gaean economics to ecofeminism, with a lot of stops in between...
...January 25, 1987] San Francisco Chronicle Depressing news that even in the cosmopolitan City on the Bay a modern equivalent of the Uffizi goes underutilized: Tour buses routinely ignore one of San Francisco's most stimulating and cheerful museums...
...I just realized, finally, that the only honest, moral thing would be to change my name...
...I own that company...
...We wounded our hands breaking this Iron Curtain with our naked hands...
...When people recognized that there really was a shortage, they changed their habits...
...Determined to correct our ignorance of lesbian and third-world feminisms, she draws on international and sometimes obscure sources...
...His face was discoloured, his feet were sliding all over the road and his eyes were glazed...
...They actually didn't flush the toilets as much...
...January 28, 1987] New York Times The hazards of a moral life as related by Miss Barbara Hershey, Tinsel Town thespian and reformed flake: She "grew up before the camera," as she puts it, and with her open manner and lifestyle seemed to embody the ultimate flower child...
...In this context, a Reagan administration, known for chronic dissembling, stands out, metaphorically speaking, as the quintessential, lying alcoholic...
...March/April 1987] New York Times For those who think that the yogurt salesman who sat next to you on your last transcontinental flight to Los Angeles was a bore, read this ad for a famous woman's accessory: Can you get too much exercise...
...Like alcoholics, she argues, politicians often engage in unhealthy and denied compulsions, distortions of reality, self-centeredness, and self-delusion, and they even have "co-dependents" who go along with and therefore encourage the illness...
...our literature, our art, didn't come as a gift from the so-called upstairs...
...April 1987] New Age Journal Teetotaling Mark Green, New York state's 1986 Democratic nominee for the Senate, employs the tools of modern science and ancient metaphor to plumb the dirty little secrets of Ron and his pals: Author Ann Wilson Schaef would probably take issue with both Shultz and Churchill...
...I knew she was exhausted, and I told Frank Perry that I couldn't throw her again...
...but I put my life into the company, and so did Ike Pappas and so did a lot of other people," Mr...
...I'm convinced that by recognizing the reality of it, we can do something about it...
...They absorbed our spirits...
...They were fully clad and carried full back-packs from which dangled various accoutrements...
...As she described it in a 1973 Times interview, there was a scene "where I had to throw the bird up in the air, trying to make it fly...
...Maybe if you collapse on the trail or have stomach cramps but it always seems to be the best-looking people and those who get sick least are the ones who jog, swim, bicycle...
...While the actress later reclaimed Hershey, that well-publicized period of her life seemed to brand her as some sort of far-out flake...
...Margaret McHugh (Mrs...
...All of a sudden I realized, gee, if a bomb drops, I'll be lucky to find my wife and kids...
...Both young men quietly knitted throughout workshop sessions...
...How does he know something can be done by getting people to think about it...
...I guess you could say I'm That COSMOPOLITAN Girl...
...The scene was so distressing that an elderly lady passenger, not given to public protest, shouted through the window, "Stop that you fools, can't you see the lad is half dead...
...I'm almost sure...
...March 15, 1987] New Zealand Tablet At a National Council of Churches conference in the Land of Kiwi, two NCC firebrands take risks: lino NCC staffers, Peter Glensor, International Affairs Secretary, and Barry Taylor, Youth Secretary, promoted a non-sexist New Zealand male image...
...I had never given it much thought before...
...The more you go into it, the deeper it goes...
...I didn't tell anybody for a long time...
...I think my generation of poets did a lot of things to break the Iron Curtain...
...On each side of him were two senior men each shouting abuse and ridicule...
...it's happened...
...It was hot and the group were all under stress...
...Yevtushenko: I hope so...
...I specialize in openness," said Blank, 49, a "basic Burlingame homemaker" who once worked as a sex therapist and now publishes sex manuals, sells sex toys and collects vibrators for her Mission District museum...
...But her gospel of pluralism seems narrow and earnestness is its greatest flaw...
...Yevtushenko: Of course...
...March 9, 1987] 58 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 1987...
...Paul Warnke induces yet another of his disciples to decipher the riddles of eternal peace by way of indoor plumbing: Wurtz started thinking about The Bomb four years ago after hearing Paul Warnke, the former chief negotiator for the SALT II treaty, speak on nuclear war at a Beyond War-sponsored event...
Vol. 20 • May 1987 • No. 5
