The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS •Former senator Mr. Gary Hart, a firm believer in "reform" marriage since at least 1972, learned something about the limits of reform in May. When last seen he was in the...
...Stephen Kinzer of the New York Times, we know a lot more about the young man's politics...
...On May 4, Mr...
...As a friend packed Mr...
...There's also trouble brewing among the more cultivated Kennedys...
...In Washington, the contra hearings (as Robert Novak insists they be called) have become a fixture on the capital's landscape, a permanent bureaucracy if you will...
...Myrdal for his work as cochairman of the International Commission of Inquiry Into U.S...
...In Ronda, Spain, after 18 months of excavation that nearly swallowed the town, workers buried the ashes of the late Orson Welles, who died in October 1985, and in New York City, a former Mrs...
...Gephardt is particularly sensitive to yellow skin colors, and just in time for his Iowa campaign, the Soviet scientist, Dr...
...While Mr...
...Kinzer to be awarded five stars in Mr...
...Linder's clown costume and other personal belongings . . . a unicycle lay propped against a crude cot...
...There he will resume work on a new volume of Pensees, sure to be an ambitious project now that publisher William Morrow has canceled plans to release One Man's Luck, a campaign biography of Mr...
...We rejoice that his son-in-law remains the president of Harvard...
...It came...
...Richard Gephardt, in another protectionist move against "those who would tamper with our American heritage," has proposed legislation this time to outlaw the nasty practice of colorizing old black-andwhite movies...
...It wasn't so much that Mr...
...It's something as a gay man I had been dealing with for the last five years, wondering when is my turn," he said...
...Paul Simon, who on May 18, in Carbondale, Illinois, formally declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination and promised to advance "the cause of peace stability on this fragile planet...
...Kurt Waldheim, remains alive, and at large...
...In other media news, a weekly column by the Rev...
...Jimmy Swaggart has been dropped by a Baton Rouge, Louisiana newspaper after it learned that major portions of his Easter Sunday offering were plagiarized from a Copley News syndicated column written by our own Gregory Fossedal...
...We were amazed last week when we found out the clown was a mechanical engineer,' said Alvaro Uriate, the owner of a small store on the, edge of town...
...Gunnar was withal a super guy who stayed ahead of the New Age on every issue having to do with peace, reform, and racial justice, not to mention sex and wine...
...And in San Francisco, a new opera entitled Nixon in China received its first public performance...
...When last seen he was in the company of his one and only wife, Lee ("Babe"), on the way to their Colorado cave...
...Edwin Schlossberg has had it with the anorexic diet that his mother-in-law, Mrs...
...War Crimes in Indochina and head of the Swedish Vietnam Committee, which opened its arms to American draft dodgers and deserters...
...The Hon...
...Instead, in more personal ways, they were mourning the loss of the only clown they ever had...
...The legend of Comandante Ben Linder continues to grow...
...nuclear arsenal, fell victim to an unexpected round of arms control activity on late May 21 when a truck drove through the exhibit area and crushed about 1500 of the tiny warhead replicas...
...Ed is a deep thinker and all that superficial stuff irks him," a friend confides...
...On the AIDS front, death took several eminent lives whose owners have asked to remain anonymous, all except the Hon...
...Not since Tocqueville had a European practiced so much interference in the internal affairs of the United States...
...Senator Inouye's inquisitors presumably are checking the tread on 011ie North's snow tires...
...Edward Kennedy into Poland for a four-day visit and then, on second thought, refused to meet with him...
...Well, there is Sen...
...He now occupies the chair of the late Artur Rubinstein, no mean pianist himself...
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...Chairman Sen...
...Finally, Mr...
...Spitsin reported...
...The exploitation of Miss Donna Rice is actually unprecedented...
...Nixon bounced back and on May 20 in Paris was installed as a foreign associate of France's illustrious Fine Arts Academy...
...Another species of celebrity staged a happier comeback in May...
...Astern Polakiem...
...He never let on.' " The editors of TAS expect Mr...
...Makes you kind of wonder why Mrs...
...Predictably, however, Mr...
...Kinzer filed this report from the spot where Mr...
...With all eyes now focused on the future of the Hart marriage, no one any longer seems to care about the future of Gary and Donna, or Gary and Debra, or Gary and the senator's wife, or Gary and Warren's leftovers...
...At last check we're not related, though I can't vouch for its London ties...
...Viktor Spitsin, has established that the type of wax found in people's ears can help determine their racial origin...
...6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1987 •The Strange New Respect award this month goes to Gen...
...Onassis hasn't become a regular at the Reagan White House...
...Welles, Miss Rita Hayworth, died forgetful and forgotten at age 69...
...Stewart B. McKinney, the 56-year-old Republican congressman from Connecticut, who stayed a blowhard to the end and agreed to make limited full disclosure of the reason for his expiry...
...Kennedy spent all his time in Solidarity circles, nor, even the fact that he risked death in Gdansk by telling a stunned crowd in fluent Polish that "I am a Pole...
...Finally, a graduating senior at' the University of California at Berkeley has won a $2,000 scholastic achievement award for being one of the top blind students in the nation...
...What did it is that he brought eight of those Kennedy kids with him, and the general, as the world must know, does not warm to children...
...Every photograph ever taken of this Phi Beta Kappa-brained peddler of baby formula and gynecological products is plastering our nation's magazines and tabloids, she has become the butt of countless challenger and fornigate jokes, and Newsweek is even suggesting that her breasts were recently given over to cosmetic enhancement—not that the magazine will ever explain how Gary retains his youthful looks...
...Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication, in Tempe, has again failed to achieve full accreditation, and NBC has dropped "Hill Street Blues," a disgusting show replete with meaningful sex, senseless violence, and kneejerk compassion...
...As I write on Memorial Day, we pay special tribute to Dr...
...She will be missed...
...In other cultivated news, starlet Faith Ringgold has opened at the Women's Building in Los Angeles, in a one-woman show that uses words, gesture, props, and the accompaniment of Alan Nakagawa on Congo drums to describe how Miss Ringgold lost 100 lbs...
...The speaker of the Iranian parliament, Hashemi Rafsanjani, derided two of the major players as "General See-Cash" and "011ie the Brainless," and from the Mall below Capitol Hill comes word that "Amber Waves of Grain," a 34,000-piece ceramic exhibit of the U.S...
...Jacqueline Onassis, has imposed on daughter Caroline...
...Ravi Shanker returned to Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall for a concert that marked the local debut of his son, Shubho...
...We have already determined that Estonians and Hungarians have more Mongoloid genes than other European peoples," Dr...
...Besides, what legitimacy Jaruzelski enjoys is based entirely on his claim that he's kept Poland from being invaded...
...Jude Wanniski's next Media Guide...
...Jackie is definitely of the school that you can't be too rich or too thin...
...A New York death also claimed 89-year-old actress Miss Hermione Gingold...
...And former Air Force sergeant Leonard Matlovich, who was once tremendously famous owing to his unsuccessful campaign to have the Air Force come to terms with his homosexuality, announced on ABC's "Good Morning America" that he too has become an AIDS man...
...Linder finally bit the dust: "In the poor and backward village of El Cua . . . villagers seemed today to be unaccustomed still to thinking of the dead man as a political symbol...
...Senator Hart fell victim to the unwritten rules of the journalistic profession, one too timid to challenge his complex politics and so it concentrated on the rather innocent friendships he formed while on campaign...
...Shot to death by the contras in April, the Oregon native now ranks up there with Rosa Luxemburg and Salvador Allende in the leftist imagination...
...A grand jury in California's Contra Costa County has asked all BART train stations to put an end to sales of the "Spectator," a magazine said to contain sexually explicit pictures...
...Although his widow has declined to comment on his sexual practices, she did explain that "Stewart told me that he wanted his death to focus attention on the need to find a cure for AIDS, not the causes...
...But then again, the whole Reagan era has become synonymous with missed opportunities...
...What else gives in Democratic presidential politics...
...Hart, and he will certainly strive to regain the confidence of the mother of his children, who was so looking forward to sleeping alone in the White House...
...It's a relief to learn that the role of Nixon is written for baritone, but so is Chou En-lai's and unlike Nixon Chou is described as "a very great man" and his aria is said to be "Lincolnian...
...Gunnar Myrdal is dead...
...Wojciech Jaruzelski, who allowed Sen...
...Now don't anyone go tell Richard Gephardt about this, but the student is . . . Korean...
...The snail darter, whose solitary presence in the Little Tennessee River held up completion of the Tellico Dam for six years in the 1970s and led federal authorities to transplant the little fish to the nearby Hiwasee River, has won a six-month delay on construction of a bridge over the Hiwasee so that its egg-laying cycle this spring may proceed undisturbed...
...Terry Teachout can now relax...
...Jimmy Breslin, a self-styled slob, has gone up-scale, switching from New York's Daily News to Newsday...
...And thanks to Mr...
...Linder used to pedal it up and down El Cua's only street as delighted local children danced behind him...
...Simon boasted of not being "neo-anything," his neo-everything counterpart, the Hon...
...Meanwhile, the president of Austria, Mr...
...Daniel Inouye is holding up remarkably under the strain, considering he was nearly blinded under the glare of TV lights during the Watergate hearings, but the performance of others has been mixed...
Vol. 20 • July 1987 • No. 7
