Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Modesto Bee "Every day I'm open to struggle"? "I feel virginal"? La Fonda's years with Hayden have led to dementia—or worse: Jane Fonda, recently separated from Tom Hayden, her...
...Not only is the clothing made poorly, out of fashion, and overpriced—I'm not fat...
...My wife's a vegetarian...
...Consider this from Mr...
...What makes a meal stick to the memory as well as the ribs is some kind of metaphysical alchemy that transmutes sustenance into sensibility...
...We were convinced...
...After taking the money, the PDF member dropped the wallet and departed...
...These incidents bring to six the number of reported incidents of this type committed by the Panama Defense Forces this year, five of them since early May...
...And I do not like being punished because I am not "ideal...
...Now it is the morning after...
...We see that the indulgence in private greed exacted a heavy public cost, one that will burden our children and grandchildren...
...The manager offered us a gift certificate for a free pizza if we would keep the one we had and let it go at that...
...As usual, I ordered my half with cheese and mushrooms and allowed my husband his half with pepperoni...
...He believed, with unquestionable sincerity, that we would all be better off if the strong and the rich were left free to act, even at the expense of the less fortunate...
...S & L officials used their depositors' money on worthless loans and yachts for themselves...
...Let the first real crisis erupt (a palpable environmental threat to the planet...
...It's morning again in America," the Reagan TV spot said in the 1984 campaign...
...We wonder: If poor Rushdie were assassinated, would it be by a Moslem terrorist bullet or a C.I.A...
...George Herbert Walker Bush is now President...
...It is a nation with a highly organized system of political benefits and social security, job protection and workers' participation in management...
...We got the pizza we wanted, but more than that, I heard what I had been waiting a whole year to hear—my husband's affirmation of my new lifestyle...
...Americans are naturally skeptical of government, so it was not surprising that they responded to the Reagan message...
...Governments exist to do things...
...If we hadn't needed them, we wouldn't have started them...
...Eleven lubricious paragraphs later and the crank returns to a timeless theme: The intangible costs of the Reagan years to our domestic tranquility are surely greater than what can be measured in dollars...
...At noon Monday, a U.S...
...They are the costs of hostility to the role of government, of indulgence toward private greed, of insensitivity to the needs of the weak in our society...
...September 1989] Austin American-Statesman Many months have passed...
...It was total victory over his ancient enemy, Washington...
...October 7, 1989] Nation The delirious condition of poor Alexander Cockburn, three years after President Mikhail Gorbachev joined Rotary and became a faithful member of the Knights of Pythias: Now, fifty years since the sirens sounded following Chamberlain's speech announcing the start of war, on September 3, 1939, many Americans probably follow Reagan's lead, symbolized by his jaunt to Bitburg, in believing that the anniversaries of the war celebrate an alliance between the United States and Germany against the Soviet Union...
...In light of these incidents, members of the U.S...
...That won't do," I heard my husband say...
...Of her impending divorce, she only has one thing to say: "Once you get over the shock, it's not so bad...
...I do not like being made to feel fat, worthless, and ugly because of my bone structure and genetic curves...
...Rue, it is a capitalist society...
...I had a very hard time getting him to admit—make that believe—that I had changed my life so dramatically...
...Hobbes, in the 17th century, said that life without organized society would be nasty, brutish and short...
...But the country to which they are traveling, from their homes and vacation tents, in buses and clunky "Trabbi" cars, is not Thatcher's Britain or apresReagan America...
...Saturday, at which time three PDF members entered the back seat of his vehicle...
...The delivery man handed us our pizza about an hour later, then ran through the fast-falling snow to his car...
...October 5, 1989] Ms...
...The reckoning is starting to come in for those eight years...
...September 7, 1989] PEN Newsletter Paranoia from a proud opsimath: Though we agree with all that has been said in opposition to the Ayatollah's death threat against Salman Rushdie and are uncompromising in support of the principle of free speech, there are many of us in the international peace movement who worry that the Rushdie affair might have diverted attention from other vital issues of free speech and could help to create a new front for a "cold war" and a new justification for a nuclearized and militarized economy...
...forces were relieved of some of their money—one at gunpoint—by uniformed members of the Panama Defense Forces in two incidents in the past few days...
...Caitlin S. Helphrey Huntington Beach, California [September 1989] Nation For the care-worn Communist who still subscribes to this fabulous weekly review, a reassuring interpretation of recent headline news: The exodus of thousands of youthful East Germans across the Austro-Hungarian border cannot be interpreted, as some Western commentators would have it, as an abandonment of the teaching of Karl Marx...
...When we opened the box to find pepperoni on the whole pizza, I said nothing and walked into the den to watch TV, content to sulk now and make a salad later...
...Reagan used a cunning strategy...
...I mean that everything is new to me...
...citizen Navy civilian employee was stopped on the Trans-Isthmian Highway about 6:45 p.m...
...He brought the man into the house and together they called the store...
...This idea stinks...
...The Transit officer jumped in the soldier's car, pointed a gun at his side, and demanded his wallet...
...Drive with windows up and doors locked...
...We know that history explains how Archduke Ferdinand's assassination, the Battle of the Alamo, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor were engineered into rallying cries for profiteering warmongers...
...We are aware of newly unveiled facts surrounding the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and . . . —Daniela Gioseffi [August 1989] 58 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1989...
...Most of the cost of repaying the insured depositors will fall on us...
...Certainly for many the memory of the pact burns brighter than, say, Stalingrad...
...Army South soldier was stopped by a PDF Transito (traffic) officer named Garibaldo on nunba Muerto near the McDonald's restaurant and the El Dorado shopping center...
...think-tank plot...
...But in real life there is no safety or humanity for anyone unless the society as a whole is a decent one...
...He brought the government of the United States to its knees by rotting it from within...
...That's why I feel virginal, sexually and emotionally...
...I'm only ten pounds above what my family doctor's height-weight chart says, which is more than absorbed in my ample breast size...
...September 18, 1989] New York Times Revolutionary thunder from the felicitously denominated Miss Letty Cottin Pogrebin, feminist theoretician and bomb thrower: I love eating out—especially out of the country...
...In a classic Trojan Horse maneuver, he deployed his amiable personality as cover for the greatest army of brigands in the history of the Republic...
...Won't last, though...
...and we'll be back trying to rebuild some of the very government smarts and moxie we've watched the Gipper all but exterminate...
...Yet the undisciplined minds of American boob journalism remain stuck on their laments of 1987...
...J. S. of Rochester, New York: I became a vegetarian about a year ago, but my husband continued to cling to the "fourbasic-food-groups" mentality he was raised with...
...The result: a Guinness record for corruption—Harding's was small beer by comparison—and epidemic cynicism about government that will cripple any initiative as far as the naked eye can see...
...Ronald Reagan saw a Hobbesian jungle out there and liked it...
...A U.S...
...military community are reminded to exercise caution while driving off-post...
...October 8, 1989] Tropic Times Lively news items appearing in one of the news organs of the United States Army: QUARRY HEIGHTS (US SOUTHCOM PAO)— Two members of the U.S...
...September 29, 1989] New York Times A Democratic Congress led by such spectacular frauds as Jim Wright and Tony Coelho brings the S&L industry to ruin, as reported so fastidiously in this journal of record, and look who Anthony Lewis pins the blame on: Self-indulgence is good for us: That was the message of the Reagan years...
...And how we wanted to believe it...
...Political discourse of an exigent nature enlivens the rich, vibrant dialectic of feminism's foremost intellectual review and asylum for the clinically insane: By the time I was 12, my bra size was 36D...
...He pulled on his boots and ran out into the snow to catch the delivery car as it was pulling out of the driveway...
...The savings and loan scandal was a squalid case of private enrichment at public expense...
...I feel like every day I have a new coat of skin, every day I'm open to struggle...
...Then came that snowy night—one of those upstate New York winter evenings the rest of the country only reads about—when we ordered a pizza from our favorite parlor...
...I feel like a virgin," she told the Miami Herald...
...But my husband acted extraordinarily...
...October 2, 1989] Vegetarian Times The making of another American legend as reported by Mrs...
...To be sure, the emigrants are hoping for a better life than they found under the East German regime...
...La Fonda's years with Hayden have led to dementia—or worse: Jane Fonda, recently separated from Tom Hayden, her husband of 17 years, says she is gingerly stepping out, eager to embrace new opportunities and situations...
...I'd rather look at statues of ancient goddesses, who had beautiful and ample nurturing flesh...
...Jim Fain, national correspondent for Cox newspapers and formerly a hat-check girl at The Palm: Ronald Reagan's paramount achievement as president has been overlooked...
...Ronald W. Reagan is comfortably in retirement...
...After the employee paid them $40, the three thanked him, shook his hand, and departed the scene without further incident...
...The cold warriors fight on...
...It is also a society that does not stint on public services or public expenditures, for culture and education or for scientific research and industrial policy...
...I think it's absolutely disgusting that I am now forced to wear "full figure" bras and queen-size pantyhose, and shop in "Chubby Lovely's Polyester Caftan and Blimp Cover Boutique...
...They demanded $40 there or $80 at the National Investigations Department, or DENI, station...
Vol. 22 • December 1989 • No. 12
