The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • July passed swimmingly, at least for those with umbrellas, flood insurance, and a healthy disdain for the notion of global warming. It was equally swell for anyone who...
...The first official hymnal of the new Presbyterian Church (USA) has eliminated "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" from its pages...
...On July 6, President Bush inexplicably awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to onetime State Department professional George E Kennan, and on July 12, Dr...
...Sidney Hook, who was honored with a Medal of Freedom by President Reagan in 1985, died in Stanford, California...
...On returning home, both Presidents Bush and Gorbachev faced major domestic disturbances: Mr...
...Faster than you could say "Lee Atwater," Mr...
...Magoo, and Mr...
...Jim Backus, the voice of Mr...
...Bush, from State Department professionals irate at being passed over for ambassadorial appointments...
...Gorbachev, his troubles are only just beginning—another truism...
...In any event, the general's game of hard-to-get worked wonders: on July 19 he suffered still more humiliation by winning the presidential election in parliament by the narrowest of margins—while running unopposed...
...WP THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1989 9 THE CONTINUING CRISIS • July passed swimmingly, at least for those with umbrellas, flood insurance, and a healthy disdain for the notion of global warming...
...They both work as professional clowns and tool around in Ford Econoline vans...
...Faster than you could say "Lee Atwater," Mr...
...House Republicans have asked Rep...
...As for Mr...
...You will notice, though, that Mrs...
...Sure enough, there were no injuries...
...First he said he would run for president, then said he wouldn't, then said he would...
...You will notice, though, that Mrs...
...Margaret Halverson, won first prize in the 15th Annual Jackpot Hollerin' Contest...
...Rain Man, the Oscar-winning movie about another pair of identical brothers, is being shown on at least fifteen major airlines sans a crucial four-minute scene in which the autistic savant played by Dustin Hoffman refuses to board a plane because he has memorized airline crash statistics...
...The long-awaited Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective opened at the Washington Project for the Arts to an aroused reception...
...Sidney Hook, who was honored with a Medal of Freedom by President Reagan in 1985, died in Stanford, California...
...Madeleine Albright, foreign policy adviser to the Dukakis campaign in 1988, returned from a speaking tour in Poland where she met with a number of Communists defeated in June's parliamentary elections...
...Gorbachev, from miners "tired of living like junkyard dogs," as one Siberian striker put it...
...Not to be outdone, three Democratic congressmen have asked the House ethics committee to review allegations of sexual misconduct by Illinois Democrat Gus Savage...
...Sure enough, there were no injuries...
...I am astounded by the degree to which he has been savaged," says Bill Kovach, the former conscience of the Atlanta Constitution who now heads the Neiman program at Harvard...
...Halverson's husband was not among the contestants...
...Madeleine Albright, foreign policy adviser to the Dukakis campaign in 1988, returned from a speaking tour in Poland where she met with a number of Communists defeated in June's parliamentary elections...
...Prof...
...As Massachusetts struggles to become the Argentina of North America, acting governor Michael Dukakis has come to be called "Peewee," while bumper stickers in Boston announce: "Duke Makes Me Puke...
...Gorbachev called him "a great politician and a man of high moral responsibility...
...On July 6, President Bush inexplicably awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to onetime State Department professional George E Kennan, and on July 12, Dr...
...Needless to say, I have no idea whether he will be cremated...
...They complained about the difficulty they had in drawing crowds, about the inaccuracy of their polling, and about how their message was distorted by a media that was supposed to be on their side...
...Like great minds, history's losers think alike...
...Noting that sophisticated viewers will appreciate that Mapplethorpe here "was probably making sly fun of their button-down, buttoned-up lives," Miss Lewis ended her remarks in a burst of feminist self-delusion: "For women, customarily confronted with female nudes, [Man in Polyester Suit] is a refreshing switch...
...The perpetually panicky administrators of Dartmouth College announced a four percent decline in alumni donors for 1988 and an 18 percent decline in applications for the fall semester...
...Like great minds, history's losers think alike...
...Miss Jo Ann Lewis, the Washington Post's critic, could not take her eyes off "Man in Polyester Suit," a photograph that "features the torso of [a] man in a tight three-piece suit, his fly wide open...
...Bush's troubles were put to rest with the emergence of one Felix S. Bloch, whose case has revived a truism of the McCarthy era: your State Department professional may be a Soviet spy...
...On July 11, Governor Mario Cuomo signed "Potty Parity" into law...
...Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and other cartoon mensches, both died, just when life was providing them with new material...
...Buz Lukens, the merry gentleman from Ohio, to resign his congressional seat...
...Her team wound up 1-21-1, a record once nearly matched by the Bloomington franchise of The American Spectator's men's softball team during its dream season of 1985...
...Magoo, and Mr...
...It's not clear what ultimately turned him around...
...The perpetually panicky administrators of Dartmouth College announced a four percent decline in alumni donors for 1988 and an 18 percent decline in applications for the fall semester...
...President Bush countered by praising his "wisdom and courage" and inviting him to lunch...
...As of June 1, 1990, all new buildings in New York state will have to provide as many toilet stalls for women as they provide stalls and urinals for men...
...WP THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1989 9 THE CONTINUING CRISIS • July passed swimmingly, at least for those with umbrellas, flood insurance, and a healthy disdain for the notion of global warming...
...On returning home, both Presidents Bush and Gorbachev faced major domestic disturbances: Mr...
...The first official hymnal of the new Presbyterian Church (USA) has eliminated "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" from its pages...
...First he said he would run for president, then said he wouldn't, then said he would...
...Rain Man, the Oscar-winning movie about another pair of identical brothers, is being shown on at least fifteen major airlines sans a crucial four-minute scene in which the autistic savant played by Dustin Hoffman refuses to board a plane because he has memorized airline crash statistics...
...In Montgomery, Alabama, ten Ku Klux Klansmen have been ordered to attend a course on race relations taught by civil rights leaders...
...Bush's troubles were put to rest with the emergence of one Felix S. Bloch, whose case has revived a truism of the McCarthy era: your State Department professional may be a Soviet spy...
...Though not so shocking as reports coming out of St.-Tropez, France, that Miss Brigitte Bardot has been accused of castrating her neighbor's donkey, which before it became a mule displayed scortatory interest in her own donkey, Mimosa...
...Mary's College Seahawks, the first gal to play on an NCAA men's baseball team, concluded a productive freshman season, batting .222 with one r.b.i...
...Buz Lukens, the merry gentleman from Ohio, to resign his congressional seat...
...The groundwork for this bit of honesty in diplomacy was laid by none other than Mikhail Gorbachev, who a week earlier in Paris had told Mitterrand that "the spirit of the French Revolution has always been present in the social life of our country"—even though the Soviets have yet to master guillotine technology...
...A bulldozer operator in the northwestern Ukraine ruptured a pipeline, spilling 4,000 gallons of fuel into the Noren River, which promptly erupted in flames when a local farm worker, as is his wont, sent a cigarette butt downstream...
...Elsewhere on the summer school circuit, University of Florida police arrested an unidentified man after he was detected crawling under library tables, reportedly looking at women's legs...
...Jim Backus, the voice of Mr...
...I've heard it all before," she commiserated...
...Gorbachev called him "a great politician and a man of high moral responsibility...
...Next on the agenda is what the New York Times has dubbed "the sexual politics of air-conditioning...
...For example, a two-anda-half-year-old boy in Clackamas, Oregon, triggered a three-car collision when he drove his battery-powered toy car onto a suburban street...
...Ensley M. Llewellyn, founder of the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, died at 83...
...In Golovin, Alaska, an 11-year-old boy determined to become the youngest pilot to cir8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1989 cle the globe crashed on takeoff...
...For example, a two-anda-half-year-old boy in Clackamas, Oregon, triggered a three-car collision when he drove his battery-powered toy car onto a suburban street...
...Gorbachev, his troubles are only just beginning—another truism...
...A bulldozer operator in the northwestern Ukraine ruptured a pipeline, spilling 4,000 gallons of fuel into the Noren River, which promptly erupted in flames when a local farm worker, as is his wont, sent a cigarette butt downstream...
...Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and other cartoon mensches, both died, just when life was providing them with new material...
...Or maybe he took a page from the novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who on July 3 announced he would reenter Peru's presidential race...
...Or maybe he took a page from the novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who on July 3 announced he would reenter Peru's presidential race...
...I am astounded by the degree to which he has been savaged," says Bill Kovach, the former conscience of the Atlanta Constitution who now heads the Neiman program at Harvard...
...It is really a shocking thing...
...Her team wound up 1-21-1, a record once nearly matched by the Bloomington franchise of The American Spectator's men's softball team during its dream season of 1985...
...In any event, the general's game of hard-to-get worked wonders: on July 19 he suffered still more humiliation by winning the presidential election in parliament by the narrowest of margins—while running unopposed...
...It's not clear what ultimately turned him around...
...It was equally swell for anyone who joined George Bush on the latest of his record-breaking foreign travels, this time to Eastern and Western Europe...
...Meanwhile, admirers of Margaret Thatcher could only marvel at her cheek in presenting President Francois Mitterrand with a copy of A Tale of 71vo Cities by Charles Dickens to mark the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution...
...Second place went to her son, George, who must have done a lot of talking back when he was growing up...
...In Poland, the question this month was "What does Jaruzelski want...
...On turning to her 1940 Girl Scout Handbook for guidance, under the heading "Respect Due the Flag" she found this: "An old, torn, or soiled flag should not be thrown away, but should be destroyed as a whole, preferably by burning...
...Prof...
...Needless to say, I have no idea whether he will be cremated...
...Miss Julie Croteau of Maryland's St...
...No matter what the Supreme Court says, feminism continues its long march through American social life...
...Though not so shocking as reports coming out of St.-Tropez, France, that Miss Brigitte Bardot has been accused of castrating her neighbor's donkey, which before it became a mule displayed scortatory interest in her own donkey, Mimosa...
...In Los Angeles, Mr...
...Ensley M. Llewellyn, founder of the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, died at 83...
...According to revision committee chairman Miss Melva Costen, the carol "has some sexist tones...
...On July 11, Governor Mario Cuomo signed "Potty Parity" into law...
...No matter what the Supreme Court says, feminism continues its long march through American social life...
...In Tacoma, Washington, retired Brig...
...Bush, from State Department professionals irate at being passed over for ambassadorial appointments...
...Second place went to her son, George, who must have done a lot of talking back when he was growing up...
...In Montgomery, Alabama, ten Ku Klux Klansmen have been ordered to attend a course on race relations taught by civil rights leaders...
...On turning to her 1940 Girl Scout Handbook for guidance, under the heading "Respect Due the Flag" she found this: "An old, torn, or soiled flag should not be thrown away, but should be destroyed as a whole, preferably by burning...
...Noting that sophisticated viewers will appreciate that Mapplethorpe here "was probably making sly fun of their button-down, buttoned-up lives," Miss Lewis ended her remarks in a burst of feminist self-delusion: "For women, customarily confronted with female nudes, [Man in Polyester Suit] is a refreshing switch...
...They both work as professional clowns and tool around in Ford Econoline vans...
...I've heard it all before," she commiserated...
...President Bush countered by praising his "wisdom and courage" and inviting him to lunch...
...In Jackpot, Nevada, a retired schoolteacher, Mrs...
...Next on the agenda is what the New York Times has dubbed "the sexual politics of air-conditioning...
...In Jackpot, Nevada, a retired schoolteacher, Mrs...
...In Tacoma, Washington, retired Brig...
...House Republicans have asked Rep...
...In Golovin, Alaska, an 11-year-old boy determined to become the youngest pilot to cir8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1989 cle the globe crashed on takeoff...
...They complained about the difficulty they had in drawing crowds, about the inaccuracy of their polling, and about how their message was distorted by a media that was supposed to be on their side...
...As for Mr...
...In Los Angeles, Mr...
...As of June 1, 1990, all new buildings in New York state will have to provide as many toilet stalls for women as they provide stalls and urinals for men...
...The long-awaited Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective opened at the Washington Project for the Arts to an aroused reception...
...It was equally swell for anyone who j...
...Mary's College Seahawks, the first gal to play on an NCAA men's baseball team, concluded a productive freshman season, batting .222 with one r.b.i...
...Gorbachev, from miners "tired of living like junkyard dogs," as one Siberian striker put it...
...Margaret Halverson, won first prize in the 15th Annual Jackpot Hollerin' Contest...
...Miss Jo Ann Lewis, the Washington Post's critic, could not take her eyes off "Man in Polyester Suit," a photograph that "features the torso of [a] man in a tight three-piece suit, his fly wide open...
...The groundwork for this bit of honesty in diplomacy was laid by none other than Mikhail Gorbachev, who a week earlier in Paris had told Mitterrand that "the spirit of the French Revolution has always been present in the social life of our country"—even though the Soviets have yet to master guillotine technology...
...As Massachusetts struggles to become the Argentina of North America, acting governor Michael Dukakis has come to be called "Peewee," while bumper stickers in Boston announce: "Duke Makes Me Puke...
...Meanwhile, admirers of Margaret Thatcher could only marvel at her cheek in presenting President Francois Mitterrand with a copy of A Tale of 71vo Cities by Charles Dickens to mark the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution...
...Turns out that the girls in their summer dresses freeze to death in many offices because climate control has been set to accommodate the men in their long-sleeve shirts, jackets, and ties...
...According to revision committee chairman Miss Melva Costen, the carol "has some sexist tones...
...Not to be outdone, three Democratic congressmen have asked the House ethics committee to review allegations of sexual misconduct by Illinois Democrat Gus Savage...
...Turns out that the girls in their summer dresses freeze to death in many offices because climate control has been set to accommodate the men in their long-sleeve shirts, jackets, and ties...
...It is really a shocking thing...
...Halverson's husband was not among the contestants...
...Miss Julie Croteau of Maryland's St...
...He was 86, and irreplaceable • As Americans of all stripes continued to debate whether to fly or fry the flag, they got no help from Miss Cynthia F. Behrman of Hilliard, Ohio...
...In other entertainment news, on July 16, 51-year-old Darrell and Dennis Carlson took top honors as the most identical of dozens of identical twins competing in the 25th Twin-O-Rama in Cassville, Wisconsin...
...In Poland, the question this month was "What does Jaruzelski want...
...In other entertainment news, on July 16, 51-year-old Darrell and Dennis Carlson took top honors as the most identical of dozens of identical twins competing in the 25th Twin-O-Rama in Cassville, Wisconsin...
...He was 86, and irreplaceable • As Americans of all stripes continued to debate whether to fly or fry the flag, they got no help from Miss Cynthia F. Behrman of Hilliard, Ohio...
...Elsewhere on the summer school circuit, University of Florida police arrested an unidentified man after he was detected crawling under library tables, reportedly looking at women's legs...
...It was equally swell for anyone who joined George Bush on the latest of his record-breaking foreign travels, this time to Eastern and Western Europe...
Vol. 22 • September 1989 • No. 9
