The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • September has expired—blown away, those living in the Carolinas might say, by Hurricane Hugo, the worst storm of its kind to hit those parts in thirty-five years. And the...
...Questions have been raised about the competence of the pilot of a USAir Boeing 737 that skidded into New York's East River during an aborted takeoff, and with good reason...
...Greye Verstraete, a 48-year-old paralegal on the staff of the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana...
...Scholarly standards weigh more heavily on the profs, and so when they alight on an old thesis they still shy from pinching the term "crack-up...
...Miss Lorie Morrison reigned as 1989 Miss Banana Slug Queen and is available for interviews with major media...
...Steve Bayliss, a law student, who notified the Daily Tar Heel that "It's a subversive Communist plot to undermine the moral standards of this great University...
...In Sri Lanka, where civil war is filling the rivers with floating corpses, fastidious Sri Lankans are foregoing a national delicacy, bloodfish, out of fear that this succulent fish is eating human flesh...
...In Los Angeles, Mr...
...From Orick, California, comes word that the twenty-first annual Banana Slug Derby was won by Miss Stacey Jones's gleaming thoroughbred, "Pete...
...Lester Shaw of Beltsville, Maryland, at the First Unitarian Church in Shaker Heights...
...Boris N. Yeltsin of the Soviet Union, demonstrated to his many American hosts that fluids on the brain need not be injurious...
...Libya's Col...
...and Mrs...
...Bowman has had his driver's license suspended thirteen times in the past eight years...
...Fluid that had gathered above the brain of former President Ronald Reagan was surgically removed early in the month...
...Rather, Professor William Galston of the University of Maryland and Dr...
...Moseley had been convicted of running athwart Georgia's 156-year-old sodomy law after admitting somewhat boastfully to engaging in oral sex with his common-law wife...
...As winter approaches the government is finally making headway in dealing with the homeless...
...Elaine Ciulla Kamarck of the Progressive Policy Institute have notified readers of the September 24 Washington Post that contemporary Liberalism has isolated itself from the electorate and that the Democrats can become the dominant party again only by mollifying their ideological extremism for "programmatic flexibility and internal diversity...
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...Charles Kraut-hammer, actually appropriated the term "crack-up...
...David N. Dinkins, the Manhattan Borough President who never speaks unless spoken to...
...of Shaker Heights, Ohio, and an indefatigable workaholic at the Washington law firm of Leventhal, Senter & Lerman, was wed to Mr...
...and Mrs...
...An intelligent observation that, but one that has been echoing through these pages since the early 1980s...
...In New York City the reform wing of the Democratic party ousted Mayor Edward I. Koch as Democratic nominee for Mayor...
...Krauthammer is a widely read Promethean figure—so widely read, in fact, that for about a decade he has been forgetting where he read it first...
...Koch was replaced by the very polite Mr...
...It saves you a trip to the drug store...
...In Billings, Montana, the campaign between the American Civil Liberties Union and local authorities has reached a crisis...
...Barney Frank's contretemps with a male prostitute, whom he commissioned for professional services of a lascivious nature and thereupon employed in a visionary self-help program originating in the Hon...
...William K. Bowman, was sentenced to twenty-three months in a work-release center for leaving the scene after running his car into a pedestrian...
...Finally, September 29 was the bicentennial of the completion of the Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who, had he lived, would have been 233 years old that day...
...The garrulous Mr...
...With George Bush assayed favorably by 70 percent of the Americanos, the economy approaching its seventh year of prosperity, and the Democrats mired in scandals so squalid that they hope the term "sleaze factor" has been forgotten, old ideas are being revived or in some cases pilfered...
...In Meadville, Pennsylvania, environmentalists failed to stop 150 Marines from carrying out training maneuvers at a nearby beach...
...Qaddafi suggested that it would be perfectly acceptable to him if one were established in Alaska, the Soviet Baltic republics, or Alsace-Lorraine...
...According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, during the first six months of the year the nation's prison population increased by a record 46,004 inmates, a seven percent increase among males, and among females a very commendable thirteen percent increase...
...Within three days late in September two Liberal profs and one Liberal columnist faced squarely an old American Spectator thesis, to wit: that the Republic is experiencing a time of ideological crack-up...
...Robert Stephen Shaw, a son of Mr...
...Almost immediately they bagged an aptly named Mr...
...The environmentalists insisted that Piping Plovers, an endangered species, needed quiet to procreate in the area, but the local Audubon chapter came to the rescue of the military-industrial complex when a Piping Plover lover testified that no Plovers had nested in the area for years...
...But for the most part student opinion sided with the ever helpful Miss Amanda Purvis, a freshman, who, after but a weekend or two on campus, concluded, "I think it's a good idea...
...Addressing the question of a Jewish homeland during September's summit of nonaligned nations, Col...
...The Rev...
...An astute attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union assured his release, however, by insisting that if state prosecutors had ever engaged in oral sex with anyone they disqualify themselves from prosecuting the foul-mouthed Mr...
...Muammar Qaddafi is mellowing...
...Dinkins is also a celebrated tax resister who refused to pay his taxes in the early 1970s in protest of government corruption...
...Arthur Wolf, Jr., was wearing a costume made of aluminum foil and mirrors...
...In Decatur, Georgia, Mr...
...Jesus Lopez was killed instantly when he lowered his pants and pointed his undraped behind in the direction of an oncoming and apparently quite prudish automobile driver...
...Critics of New Zealand's socialist polity who charge that New Zealand is the most boring country in the English-speaking world were given a jolt when that country's Otago Daily Times reported that " 'Rocking Chickens' are becoming the in thing among toddlers at Dunedin playgrounds, according to the experts...
...There are signs that...
...Yet his crackup is not hyphenated, and so perhaps he will patent it as an original observation...
...Herbert Buckman, Jr...
...The Hon...
...In fact, the Liberal columnist, Mr...
...Miss Sally Ann Buckman, the daughter of Mr...
...though, throughout the month, another libertarian-conservative, Mr...
...Miss Purvis's picture is available upon request...
...Moseley...
...Bettye Doty performed the ceremony and handled the Q and A afterward...
...Not even Rio during Carnival has known the earthy splendors of "Rocking Chickens...
...And the winds of Hugo are not the only fresh currents rattling the Republic...
...The conservative crackup is near" he begins his September 22 syndicated column, untroubled that the term and the thesis were first posited two and a half years ago in the Wall Street Journal and The American Spectator by the author of that classic, The Liberal Crack-Up, or that Simon and Schuster has that distinguished author working on a book whose working title is The Conservative Crack-Up...
...Early in the month, and after a careful study of the behavior of local ACLU members, the Billings Police Department infiltrated the local red light district with policewomen posing as ladies of the night...
...In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, another USAir pilot, Mr...
...V. 8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1989 had requested that the undercover policewoman urinate on him for $40, which was not surprising, but twenty-four grams of marijuana were found in his backpack and experts on the ACLU cannot understand why an ACLU paralegal would endanger a date with a beautiful lady on a lovely Montana night with twenty-four grams of dope...
...Yeltsin proved to be the most amiable Russian visitor in decades, particularly to American bartenders, and he evacuated all the fluids he brought aboard in the conventional hearty manner of the junketing politico—come visit again, Boris...
...Frank's Washington domicile, finally took a conventional twist when the Massachusetts progressive admitted to the illustrious Washington Times that he used his congressional privileges to "fix" the young man's parking tickets—now that's politics, Barney...
...At the University of North Carolina, administrators have responded to that hot, hot, hot report of the University's Task Force on AIDS and installed condom vending machines in dormitories...
...The French Supreme Court found an unnamed florist guilty of clipping an endangered flower in his own garden and fined him heavily...
...The victim, Mr...
...There were the usual scoffers' voices sneering at progress, for instance Mr...
...James Moseley, 35, has been freed...
Vol. 22 • November 1989 • No. 11
