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...While such spasms are generally pleasurable, postorgasmic tetany is not...

...Furthermore, liberals look to protect the rights of those without a voice: animals and the environment...

...You are to be commended for providing readers with the other side of the story...

...George W. Polhemus Pembroke, NC [July 30, 1990] 50 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1990...

...July 1990] Wall Street Journal Another voice for freedom in the arts rings out, as the febrile Susan P. Woods of the Whitney Museum savages a hero of American letters: I was outraged that you published and consequently endorsed Dave Shiflett's review "Bookshorts: Help for the Suburban Yard Slave" (Leisure & Arts, July 17...

...East Germany has much to recommend it...

...Chocolate is a kind of blackface, linking her sympathetically with the underclass...

...What a pity it must be to live in Mr...

...CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Our nation's leading series of travel guides explains why Gunter Grass is always greener on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall: Its reputation as the Soviet Union's most loyal client state seems well deserved...

...It is not difficult to imagine Mr...

...In the guise of a book review on how-to manuals for lawn-mower repairs, the author has found a rather imaginative way to divulge his prehistoric sexist thinking...

...My own name change at age 30 was exciting and, in retrospect, among the most insightful and self-caring things I have ever done...

...By having a liberal media, it assures that most of these voices will be heard...

...Like the scar of an initiation rite, I wear the name as a symbol of the insights gleaned from that metamorphosis...

...But, unlike other Eastern bloc countries, the East German government can point to the fact that Marxist central planning has largely worked in this country, and that the need for reform is accordingly less pronounced...

...Shiflett's little suburban block and I am sure that most of your well-educated and enterprising readers would agree...

...Time has not stood still on this side of the border, but it has taken much less of a toll than it has in the West...

...It's not just because the government is so peculiarly inclined toward a pre-Gorbachev form of government, you feel...

...Gradually she sprinkles on red candies, white alfalfa sprouts, tinsel—until she's fully "clothed" in a perverse, tarty sort of seduction costume...

...If postorgasmic perineal pain occurs, I instruct the patient to sit on a firm surface and recline at a 45° angle...

...For one example, the predatory viciousness that motivates male hunters to take to the woods on weekends to kill deer isn't that much different from the meanness that prompts males to be spouse-abusers or wife-beaters...

...But these parents may later have to accept that the best names will be the ones their children will choose for themselves...

...In some individuals, tetany causes severe retroscrotal or perineal pain if the lower bowel holds even a moderate amount of gas...

...If they had only opened their eyes, they would have realized that the liberals on the Court were aging quickly...

...Furthermore, I feel it is a crime that our Supreme Court is now in the hands of the conservatives...

...Shiflett to be a morally inept, social outcast in any slightly progressive society...

...It provided Arab insights into the Middle East situation that are usually not carried by other major American newspapers...

...Colman McCarthy, albeit with a few drinks aboard and perhaps even some of those little pink pills and a sprig or two of marijuana for reassurance: Little research is available on the number of women who see vegetarianism as a way of rejecting male domination...

...Moreover, the old adage that only the East Germans could make a success of communism —economically, at any rate—seems hard to refute...

...however, each individual who voted Bush into office has no excuse...

...His article became quickly ineffectual in reviewing the manuals because of the emotional response it provoked by attacking women as being a race of low-IQ slave drivers who sit indoors packing themselves with carbohydrates...

...however, they do not seem to understand that this is necessary in order to ensure that individual rights are protected...

...Avi Meir Lev Portland, OR [July/August 1990] Pocono Record (Stroudsburg, PA) The oldest man in America sounds off: Re the letters by all of those conservatives out there who feel that they are not being treated fairly by the liberal press: Conservatives are absolutely correct in assuming that the press and news media are liberal in their ideology...

...Another important aspect of liberal ideology is that one always attempts to use rationality and logic when confronted with a situation...

...Chocolate is also food, the source of many desperate obsessions among women...

...The only problem is how to explain to one's partner the need to drop to the floor after sex, lean against a wall, and massage the left lower quadrant...

...However, this doesn't mean that one totally disregards emotion...

...Christian Sondergaard, Jr...

...I pray that the remaining liberals on the Court can hang on until the 1992 presidential election...

...Unless this country begins electing some liberal Democratic presidents, I am afraid to think of what will happen to this great country of ours...

...But it is hard to imagine that it is only coincidence that a society that has a high rate of spouse abuse is also one that sanctions violence against animals...

...I am disappointed that the editors of the Wall Street Journal did not recognize this rhetoric as offensive bigotry...

...Slathered in chocolate, she cries, "My life is worth nothing but s...

...What other country of comparable size . . . could so reliably produce so many world-caliber athletes...

...Shiflett's world of fat, screaming wives who demand a manicured lawn before they can feel at peace with themselves and their marriages...

...It is good that so many parents are now attending carefully to giving their babies the most meaningful and politically correct names...

...A: Perianal and perineal muscle spasms are normal in orgasm...

...yet she plays the game, as women do...

...Picking on the weak is the lust in both sports...

...Stroudsburg, PA [July 30, 1990] Wall Street Journal The ghost of Cyrus Vance offers a new peace initiative: Thank you for the interview with Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq ("Dictator Speaks," page one, June 28...

...from Fodor's Germany 1990, Random House, $15.95 paper] New York Mousse au chocolat raised to the highest level of artistic expression by one of the National Endowment for the Arts' favorite deadbeats: In the second act, she strips to the skin to "strip" emotionally, baring the self-hate of the body-obsessed, bulimic woman...

...The article, based on the premise that man is inherently "oppressed" by woman, is blatantly insolent in its attempt to make a potentially dull subject humorous...

...This method prevents oneself from selfishly applying what they believe to be what is best for a given situation...

...It's a Prussian inheritance, first and foremost...

...The relief is immediate once the flatus has passed...

...Like many name-changers, I changed my name because 1 changed...

...She rages against the demand that a woman's value be measured by her attractiveness to men...

...The transition followed a difficult and introspective period, after which I was able to accept responsibilities in a way that I could not have in my more turbulent youth...

...It is no accident that within a few months of adopting my new name, I switched careers, improved my diet, bought a home, began recycling my trash, and made a commitment to an excellent woman who is now my wife...

...August 6, 1990]Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality An exigent inquiry to Hugh Hefner's favorite intellectual review from—or so it seems—Madonna: Postorgasmic perineal muscle spasm Q: What is the cause of painful perineal muscle spasm postorgasm in a patient whose physical exam is normal...

...Liberals simply try not to allow emotions to color their judgment...

...more that the people themselves seem quite uninterested in swapping their ordered lifestyles for the promise of Western-style freedoms...

...You really cannot blame President Bush for this since he is also conservative...

...President Hussein's suggestion that the U.S...

...consequently, this means that one tries not to be swept away by emotion...

...I fmd little in common with the people who must live on Mr...

...lend atomic weapons to Iraq is of interest...

...What other Eastern European state, Romania excepted, would react so coolly to the reforming promise of glasnost and perestroika...

...It's the sort of odd dress-up game children play with lipstick and shaving cream...

...These same persons may have a satisfactory orgasm when no gas is present...

...July 24, 1990] Utne Reader For those who mutter that Liberalism has seen better days, behold this testimony from a likely Democratic presidential candidate certain to find many eager supporters at the 1992 Democratic convention: Thank you for publishing several perceptive articles on naming and name changing...

...At heart, perhaps it's this German heritage that explains not only the relative success of communism, but the rather austere nature of the government, too...

...Tb begin with, liberals look at protecting the rights of all minorities: Asians, blacks, the elderly, the handicapped, Hispanics, the homeless, homosexuals, Indians, the poor, women, and those with or without religious beliefs...

...What this means is that a liberal puts himself or herself in someone else's situation to understand their beliefs, ideas, and needs...

...The rampant overdevelopment that has blighted much of the West German landscape is practically unknown in this people's republic...

...This position forces the coccyx against the lower intestinal tract and will often allow the trapped gas to escape through the spastic perianal muscles...

...Covered in her ceremonial body paint, Finley stirs a collective consciousness of women's shared life from childhood to girlhood and beyond...

...Consequently, this is becoming more important as our executive and judicial branches of government become more and more conservative...

...Mutually assured destruction may be the only effective way to prevent aggression in that part of the world...

...It is important to understand that liberals live by the principle that "you don't know someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes...

...For the above reasons, I feel it is necessary for the press to be liberal in their views...

...August 2, 1990]Washington Post Another beautifully written dithyramb from Prof...