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...I found that young people are still embarrassed to buy them...

...Donny-boy has the warped sense that teaching kids ages 12-16 how to mutilate is educational...

...We had two anniversaries here...

...Mildred E. Stensaas Santa Barbara [October 23, 1988] 50 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1989...

...PHILIP ROTH [November 1988] Modesto Bee Another idiot ponderosity from what all thinking Americans might well come to see as the Yellow Peril: An emotional Yoko Ono flashed peace signs and blew kisses to about 1,000 fans of her late husband, former Beatle John Lennon, as he was posthumously honored Friday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood...

...Under "supervision" of a Game Commission Official and 10 parents, these boy scouts were ethically and morally abused...

...So Stone helped out by bringing up images of heretics, gays, scholars and scientists who have burned for their ideas...

...She asked everyone to think of himself as "being here...breathing...breathing our own energy . ." She suggested everyone breathe that energy "into the center of our bodies . down to our arms, forming a chain...

...We had very beautiful times here...

...A poem had already been recited by a student apologizing to all the skunks, opossums, cows, deer and sunbathers who were destined to be inconvenienced by the new UC Santa Cruz Student Center...

...L.A...

...He went through primal therapy here...

...Perhaps our Mayor can come up with a creative solution to avert this small but significant backslide...

...is a special city for him...

...October 11, 1988] Spy The blunders that ensue when aficionados of TV culture go egghead— in a list of "celebrated feuds" the hapless "fact-checkers" of agelastic Spy magazine mistake Irving Kristol for Irving Howe and: FEUDS AND MORE FEUDS: IRVING KRISTOL VS...

...Why have you come...

...I would dream whole speeches every night and each morning I would jot down notes about them on subjects ranging from racism to the grand illusion of the peace-and-prosperity line put forth by the meretricious Bush campaign, to Boston Harbor, to the obsolete folly of war, to that newly naughty "L-word"-liberal...

...Stephen R. Kellert's "Childhood Cruelty Toward Animals Among Criminals and Non-Criminals" to understand there is no difference...

...You fouled the air and had no concern for the health of the people showing you our town...

...Neither did some others...

...10), I have been troubled by the lack of commentary on one aspect of the controversy that has been overlooked by the Mayor, the press and school administrators...

...What happened in Perry County should be a warning to older Americans inclined to ask assistance of a boy scout when wanting to cross a street—Don't...

...Speaking through a microphone, Allucquere Stone, a graduate student in History of Consciousness, told the group that standing in a circle at such events was a tradition that went back thousands of years...

...Then she suggested everybody bury all negative thoughts in the ground that was being ritually rebirthed...

...7; Topics item, Oct...

...This is where he met Elvis . . . [October 21, 1988] Hippocrates To the hypochondriacs in the audience of this New Age journal, a communique from another of those New Age Puritans who are such menaces to copulation: Having raised four children who have a healthy interest in sex, I too became concerned about whether they were using condoms ["The AIDS File," July/August reported that only 8 percent of sexually active teenage boys use them...

...What did you bring with you...

...Unless you're armed and prepared to fend off a paramilitary hood...

...According to Don Walker, organizer of the Sunday boy scout "event," people need the skills "to survive...

...Therefore, we now keep a basket of condoms on the bathroom counter...

...Most women do everything to help elect their husbands...

...I found most Europeans equally appalled...

...John would have loved it," Ono said at the news conference...

...I've been appalled at the passivity of the electorate, at the lack of even the most elementary principles of democratic thought and action, at the degeneration of our language, at the lulling, the brainwashing, the disinformation...

...A liberal is a man or woman or child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night and a brighter, infinite future...

...October 28, 1988] Philadelphia Daily News With the criminalization of public smoking assured, Reform continues to rage—now against Boy Scouts and red meat: It may have been unintentional, but it was very appropriate to have the story, "Skinheads Knife 3 Near Allentown," opposite the story, "Scouts Beat, Killed Rabbits for Dinner...

...the heroine, the lady, will not have a cigarette dangling from her mouth...

...See that thing clearly," Stone suggested...

...A speech had already been made in praise of the center's planned Third World Lounge, where "people of color" will be able to "network...

...He is just presenting the "facts," among them that Dukakis is "soft on crime," that he's "weak on defense," that he incites "class conflict," that his economic approach resembles "socialism...

...Those were suggestions bound to work for an academic crowd...

...Lou Peluso Philadelphia [October 25, 1988] Santa Cruz Sentinel An important educational experience at the University of California at Santa Cruz, as reported by an agog journalist from the local agnostic press: SANTA CRUZ—It was a UCSC kind of afternoon...

...I began to dream about this campaign obsessively...

...Although styles and political climates have changed since the 70's, now nearly a generation of school-girls have been able to walk to school through snow in relative warmth, slide into home plate without skinned knees, and dangle upside down from monkeybars without the worry that boys are eyeing their underwear...

...We want a team in the White House...

...Chancellor Robert Stevens, red tie loosened and dangling, didn't have the look of a man carrying too many negative thoughts...

...Kathleen Condon Brooklyn [October 24, 1988] New York Times Leonard Bernstein, hysterical on the op-ed page of the venerable Times eight days before the people speak: I have just returned from two months in Europe, where I followed the election news assidulously [sic...

...Donny-boy could shave his head and join the skinheads with that philosophy...

...All that was left was the ritual intended to cap off the official groundbreaking ceremony...

...We want our first lady to be a lady...

...Both stories conveyed violence perpetrated upon the innocent by young hoods...

...Girls in pilot schools are being issued skirts or jumpers, and are not allowed the option to wear pants...

...The sun was still shining as the fog began to roll in off the bay, and more than 50 people were standing in a circle, holding hands and performing a "ritual of rebirth" to apologize to a hill for a building about to be forced upon it...

...See before you that ending, that sorrow, that pain...

...In films we always know who is the bum, the "bad guy," the streetwalker and the bar fly, as they will be smoking...

...What can possibly be wrong with that...

...A woman who fouls the air, breaks our local law, and has no concern for people's health has no right to be our first lady...

...This is "One Mom's Crusade Against AIDS...

...Furthermore, and disclaimers to the contrary, Bush's campaign has appealed to fears and stirred racial prejudices, and I believe that he knows it...

...I would like to remind those who would argue this practice as a necessary and economical expedient that the right of girls to wear pants in school was hard won, and had real meaning for the budding feminists who waged the struggle...

...September/October 1988] Santa Barbara News-Press Mildred of Santa Barbara posits yet another explanation for the Democrats' defeat, an explanation certain to be employed by liberal pundits once they get wind of it: Kitty, you blew it in Santa Barbara County when you smoked in our public building on your first visit...

...Your speech about your husband's concern for our environment fell flat as you continue to smoke against his wishes...

...The crowd stood behind barricades outside the round Capitol Records building on Vine Street in Hollywood as the Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever" played on speakers...

...Women's rights have historically been won and lost in small increments...

...Only this: that the word has been debased, defamed and totally misused by powerful interests that have sought even greater and more authoritarian power...

...In recent days, he has said repeatedly that he's only telling the "truth" about Dukakis and not deliberately and knowingly running a calculated campaign of misrepresentations of a kind seldom seen in American presidential elections...

...Geneva A. Mills Noti, Ore...

...Once all were linked together with their own energy, Stone asked participants to ask themselves, "Why have I come...

...You broke our law...

...Those who argue there is a difference between the skinheads' attack on three youths at a party and 75 boy scouts clubbing animals and slitting their throats, need only read Dr...

...October 30, 1988]Washington Post Professor Haynes Johnson of the redoubtable Post removes his brain from the pickle jar where it has been fully immersed in the potions of wholesome thought for decades, and puts it to work: We have seen a Republican presidential candidate, George Bush, run a shameful campaign of smears, lies and distortions that will cost him dearly in his ability to govern if he becomes the next president...

...CURRENT WISDOM New York Times A vigilant citizen of the feminist mafiosa sounds the tocsin to all the lovely-legged gals in danger of full disclosure: To the Editor: In following recent articles on pilot projects to instigate uniforms in the New York City public schools (news story, Oct...