Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
New Republic Observations of a sociological nature from Miss Margaret Carlson, tomorrow's Mother Teresa: I went to visit one of George Bush's thousand points of light three weeks ago bearing...
...December 16, 1988] Village Voice Midst a discourse on the scortatory undertakings of the degenerate Mr...
...Both stories combine national epic, intense psychological drama and spiritual transcendence...
...They're Republicans...
...We ask art to hold the mirror up to life: isn't this how most of our days really go...
...December 20, 1988] Princeton Spire Princeton University joins the national transformation of the American university into one vast day-care center: "Last night, we had a chance to experience what the Creation felt like," says a Princeton student who has been attending a pottery-making workshop on campus led by Princeton's first artist-in-residence, Sasha Makovkin...
...New Republic Observations of a sociological nature from Miss Margaret Carlson, tomorrow's Mother Teresa: I went to visit one of George Bush's thousand points of light three weeks ago bearing blankets and canned goods collected in the neighborhood...
...And you aren't our equal partner and never will be...
...They recited in unison "One, two, three—We apologize," and tried to pass off the poster as "avant-garde art" according to campus officials...
...Still others prefer to avoid all this by simply calling the cycles warm events and cold events...
...The class will discuss the following topics: lesbian history, lesbian feminist thought, coming out, contemporary lesbian culture, issues of racism and classism within the lesbian community, sexuality, and future visions...
...The white students, who have been forced to leave the dormitory, set off an emotional scene at the dormitory Sunday morning when they met with scores of black and white residents, ostensibly to offer an apology...
...Of course I got paid by the club for throwing the event...
...I come from a land of lunatics...
...Some scientists objected to La Nina as sexist, however, and substituted El Viego, "the old man," as in Old Man Winter...
...Students are expected to take an active role in directing and facilitating the course, as it will primarily center on student discussions of reading and projects...
...It is not necessarily sacrilegious to say that the two lives, taken as narratives, are remarkably similar...
...But as you see leather-bound datebooks being pulled out to make lunch dates, and overhear conversations about the best frequent flier programs, you know how slim Bush's vision thing really is...
...Many students "hyperventilated, people were retching, not just black students by any means, and men and women both," said Rachel Wiesen, a resident assistant at Ujamaa House...
...All around were people like myself thirsting for a seasonal fix, reassurance that their lives of wretched excess and self-absorption had not drained them of all mercy...
...Then what do we call Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine...
...Jesus Christ (1-33 A.D...
...However, the two students outraged the others even more when they allegedly offered a flippant apology...
...it peddles no unifying vision...
...It's not that we don't love you, it's because we don't trust you...
...Alig is a master exploiter, but no more so than Ronald Reagan, whose administration relentlessly whittled away at various forms of aid to dependent children (there haven't been so many homeless kids since the Depression), while cranking up public hysteria over their sexual exploitation...
...The so-called real world is in color...
...Although the white students said they had been drunk when they defaced the Beethoven poster, the tension at the meeting became so high that a number of black and white students became hysterical...
...This mini-course will be held the last seven weeks of Winter Term, 1989...
...When I come to Canada, I see a country that represents the way it is possible to live...
...Here's the plot: Howie, a young businessman, buys shoelaces at a CVS store on his lunch hour...
...1) (Excl...
...He chats with a secretary, goes to the john and eats a cookie...
...By age 34, he was dead—martyred, some would say—only a year older than Jesus...
...I was paying the kids to go out with somebody else—that's not prostitution...
...October 18, 1988] University of Michigan Course Guide (School of Literature, Science & Art) Greek studies in the modern manner for New Age classicists: HO...
...and he paid the price...
...We are an empire...
...There was nothing illegal about it," he says...
...Two white freshmen who formerly lived at the dormitory admitted that they defaced the Beethoven poster as a practical joke after dorm students had held a hallway discussion two weeks ago on the possibility that the 19th century composer had black ancestry...
...Sheen mourns all that he believes his country lost with the assassination of John F. Kennedy...
...But you're stuck with us by virtue of the land mass and we can destroy you in a minute, politically, economically, culturally...
...Know who you are dealing with," he tells a Canadian questioner...
...Most of "The Mezzanine," though, simply pays open-eyed, open-ended attention to "the often undocumented daily texture of our lives...
...In Parker's case, the story involves a major turning point in the history of black Americans: in their sense of identity, their social and political relations with whites, their self-assertion as artists...
...We were asked to think, feel, and create with our souls...
...January 23, 1989] Nation Out on the lunatic fringe, a movie critic contemplates the life of jazz virtuoso Charlie Parker, and into his hallucinatory mind pops Mr...
...October 31, 1988] New York Times A little-known scientific debate waged by the Galileos, the Newtons, and the Betty Friedans of our incomparable age: Scientists disagree on what to call the cold cycle...
...Some readers may have a problem with that: art, they'll say, must do more...
...Sort of like Ted Turner colorizing the classics...
...Soup-kitchen turns as a way of making reparations aren't to be discouraged just because they make yuppies feel good...
...The sunglasses show things in black-and-white," explains Carpenter, sitting in his hotel suite...
...Alig, in his own jaded way, is trying to make fun of hypocrisy rule while desperately trying just to make fun...
...Women's Studies 110 will be a broad introduction to the field of lesbian studies...
...Planet Earth is the Third World to these people...
...Parker, as the key figure in the development of be-bop, was more than a mere symbol of these changes...
...If the events of November 22, 1963, had occurred in any other country, the United States would have been under martial law...
...And he was resurrected no less promptly, in graffiti that insisted "Bird Lives...
...Then I thought, why not just do this message about the Reagan Revolution being controlled by free-enterprising aliens from outer space...
...And thinks about things: the squiggly mark you make after "and 00/100" when writing checks, the lines of dust that never quite disappear when you ply the broom and dustpan...
...We made dust out of dry clay, added water, made lumps of clay, and then formed whatever came to us...
...November 2, 19881 49...
...Maybe in Baker's next book...
...Practical Feminism...
...He lived them...
...Students will be asked to keep a weekly journal that integrates critical analysis of the readings, classroom discussions, and personal reactions...
...The light of those to whom much has been given is a low-wattage bulb at best...
...he pushed them further...
...It never switches on the rhetoric to bathe details in fake luminosity...
...They are better than nothing at all...
...The subplots...
...November 5, 1988] Washington Post The thrill of scientific discovery as reported from the digs of historic Virginia: In what some scholars are describing as a major discovery, archeologists at Colonial Williamsburg have found an artifact that they believe is one of Jefferson's discarded toothbrushes...
...Michael Alig, the VV falls prey once again to the Reagan Magic: At the party, people were able to buy dates with 16-year-olds with play money, the kids getting $50 from Alig to go through with the dates...
...January 3, 1989] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1989 CURRENT WISDOM Newsweek Taxing literary commentary from the book pages of Newsweek occasioned by the publication of a gob of spit: Most recent American fiction has been what we're pleased to call realistic: objective narratives of ordinary (though sneakily meaningful) events in the lives of people who are neither heroic nor grotesque...
...Our president is the leader of an empire...
...LESBIAN STUDIES...
...Winter 1989] Vancouver Sun Whilst visiting greater Vancouver the American actor Martin Sheen offers substantial proof that, as he puts it, he comes from "a land of lunatics": American actor Martin Sheen has a few words on the free-trade agreement...
...They're dismantling the middle class, the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer...
...More than show us our lives afresh...
...Offered mandatory credit/no credit...
...Grades will be based on class participation, weekly journals, and a final project/presentation to the class...
...it's no substitute for government programs to feed and clothe and house people...
...Recently Princeton University exhibited [Makovkin's] work, including Sasha's ceramic mural called "A Ceramic Comic," which he describes as "the story of two blobs who . . . find themselves in a dependency relationship . . ." [Winter 1989] New York Post A magisterial new film, elucidated by the philosophical John Carpenter, its Shakespeare: "I had this idea for a pair of sunglasses you could look through and see the truth," says the 40-year-old Carpenter, who based "They Live" on an early '60s science-fiction tale...
...You see, the aliens have colorized us...
...We would have called the Kennedy assassination a military coup, because that's what it was, a coup by the military-industrial complex and we've been living in a police state ever since...
...It was first dubbed La Nina, Spanish for "the girl," to distinguish it from El Nino, which means "the boy," or Christ Child, so named because the warm cycle appears near Christmas...
...But most writers never get this far...
...January 2, 1989] San Francisco Chronicle The shocking condition of health among students of both major races at Stanford University as reported by Mr...
...I was hoping to play Lady Bountiful for a moment but instead I got a look at Yuppie Philanthropy in action...
...Bill Workman of the "Chronicle Peninsula Bureau": Several students who live at Ujamaa House, one of several ethnic dormitories, said they felt that their home had been violated by the poster incidents...
Vol. 22 • March 1989 • No. 3
