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CURRENT WISDOM Vegetarian Times A report on the University of Maryland's innovative program to bring members of the homeless community in from the streets and allow them to hold forth in an...
...Madonna and Child II, for example, is lit to a hazy, incandescent glow—the beauty of the image disrupted only by a tiny viscous bubble that clings to the infant's cheek...
...no way to get it fixed...
...In preparation for the next time something as glorious occurs, Bush may be studying how to be giddy, as the fall of the wall warranted...
...They could care less about everything...
...But it is possible to finish it...
...December 14, 1989] Washington Times Churchillian oratory from Mr...
...Regular features will include reports about upcoming legislation, networking among women with similar health concerns, and names and addresses of places within the "movement" that are accessible...
...What part of an animal did you eat...
...By submerging sacred figures in urine, Serrano does suggest that the body (and its fluids) have been repressed in the name of spiritual transcendence...
...Subscriptions for this start-up quarterly are available on a sliding scale fee from $8-$20...
...Adherents to the domino theory were on to something...
...Communism, he warns, "will not just fade away...
...December 14, 1989] Spinal Cord Injury Life Proof that the publishing genius of Henry Luce remains vibrant in the land, as displayed in this astonishing notice of a promising new journalistic enterprise: An effort to link disabled lesbians on a national level has begun with the publication of Dykes Disability and Stuff...
...he tosses out later, breaking into the ongoing discussion...
...What do you think of that...
...Using photography's ability to freeze motion and fragment images, the "Ejaculate Trajectory" series transforms the artist's own semen into abstract white streaks set against black backgrounds...
...You can't get nothin' done...
...December 1, 1989] New York Times From the pen of Dr...
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...What follows are the idiot's sudorific conclusions: The fallacy of the domino theory is that it confused nations with individuals and communism with a communicable disease...
...Would that they had distinguished between indigenous movements and those imposed from abroad...
...Nobody seems to care about nothin' down here...
...Richard Cohen, ocassioned this time by the sudden decline of European Communism and the rise of democratic fervor among our erstwhile adversaries...
...Taken out of context, the phrase piss Christ fails to convey the respectful, almost reverential, aspect of Serrano's photographs...
...Had they done that, they might not be so surprised to see communism triumphant in Vietnam but vanquished in much of Eastern Europe...
...Is that too coarse for you...
...One of his duties is to reflect the national emotion at an event of staggering significance...
...just about got to ride a horse...
...Dominoes did fall—but not in the direction predicted...
...If destiny assigns us the role of one day being among the last defenders of socialism in a world in which the Yankee empire has succeeded in embodying Hitler's dream of world domination, we will know how to defend this bulwark to the last drop of blood...
...Maybe Bush looked at the jubilant throngs at the wall, some with champagne, some with pickaxes, all joyful, and thought, "And what happens to NATO...
...Thomas Collins at large on this distinguished op-ed page strikes the proper pose: For a more clear-cut view of the thinking represented by the Quayle side of Bush, it is best to turn to one of the conservative publications, such as Commentary magazine...
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...In some cases, emerging nations were merely reacting to the collapse of old colonial empires—British, French, Portuguese—and asserting their nationalism...
...What...
...It is not clear what he meant by that, and I'm not sure I want to know...
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...Without a bath, the man is a walking Louvre: Piss Christ is not a pretty title...
...I never call it meat—that's just a euphemism...
...Communism is not finished as a force in history," he says...
...he asks, responding to their groans...
...Instead, he adopted them "to consolidate power and to save the Communist system and Soviet military domination...
...Not, as Jesse Helms and other members of the Moral Majority assume, an attempt to discredit religious faith altogether...
...With this series, Serrano once again asks the viewer to question what lies behind a tradition we take to be both transcendental and disembodied...
...Would that Cold War hawks had recognized that Third World communism, as in Vietnam, was rooted mostly in nationalism...
...it's the females in the barns and henhouses...
...The reason the theory has worked in reverse is that in Eastern Europe communism thwarted nationalism and was sustained only by military force...
...We haven't hardly got a road that you can get over in with a car down here...
...Once that force—mostly the Soviet army—was sidelined by Gorbachev, the dominoes started to fall...
...He should enjoy...
...Words count...
...November 10, 1989] 7 Days An explication of Andres Serrano's recent exhibit at Manhattan's famed Stux Gallery wherein reviewer Margaret Sundell marvels at the noble purpose to which Andres has put his urine and semen—imagine the possibilities open to Andres once he fully comprehends the dirt under his fingernails, the secretions accumulating in his bushy nose hair, his ear wax, his bellybutton lint...
...I make my living with words, and I like to use them accurately...
...Fidel Castro, a literary sample submittable to the editorial department of the eminent Nation magazine and urban terrorist commune...
...Fall 1988] New York Newsday After braving the pages of "one of the conservative publications," a Mr...
...December 9, 1989] New York Newsday Another model sentence from columnist Jimmy Breslin, poet of the bar stool, any bar stool: Along with the large group who will spring from such as the young men who once were shot by Bernie Goetz, which made everybody feel so elated because we knew we never would have to worry about them again...
...July 1989] Washington Post Old Faithful, Mary McGrory, beholds the fall of the Berlin Wall and takes yet another occasion to give it to George Bush good and hard: Why did the leader of the western world look as though he had lost his last friend the day they brought him the news of the fall of the Berlin Wall...
...A rib...
...You know why I avoid dairy products and eggs...
...Also on view are some of Serrano's nonrepresentational works, which investigate the seductive power of aesthetics, but as it operates in secular art...
...November 14, 1989] San Francisco Chronicle Scientific speculations of an ovine significance from Miss Anne Perkins, a graduate student at the University of California at Davis whose doctoral dissertation is on "Reproductive Behavior in Rams," and who is here responding to an impassioned question about gay sheep: "It's very difficult to look at the possibility of lesbian sheep because if you are a female sheep, what you do to solicit sex is stand still...
...December 7, 1989] Washington Post Another lecture on the failure of American foreign policy from Dr...
...How many of you had a corpse for lunch today...
...Or, "The military budget will be slashed, and people will start saying Northrop should build subway cars instead of B-2s, and 'Star Wars' is down the drain...
...December 27, 1989] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1990 51...
...Darwin McElderry, a leading public figure in Exline, Iowa, and spokesman for the New Liberalism: "We just don't have the money to do nothin' and nobody's taking much interest...
...In fact, it's a downright provocation—an invitation to question religion as it stands...
...Braille and tape copies of the premier issue will be available free through and courtesy of the Women's Braille Press, P.O...
...Everybody hollers at you...
...Christianity has always been intimately bound up with the psychology of images, and Serrano's photographs (that turn tiny, essentially trivial Tchotchkes into monuments of devotion) implicate art-making as much as they do organized religion...
...A leg...
...Also, he might reflect that the end of the Cold War, which the wall symbolized, can help solve real problems, like the deficit, the homeless, the afflicted and the addicted...
...CURRENT WISDOM Vegetarian Times A report on the University of Maryland's innovative program to bring members of the homeless community in from the streets and allow them to hold forth in an actual classroom: Only minutes after Colman McCarthy walks into his honors seminar at the University of Maryland, his students fall into a loud and only vaguely organized debate about the rights of animals, or as McCarthy says, "our fellow Earthians, whom we call animals...
...But considering that the icons are plastic kitsch figurines, his work also argues for a necessary renewal of religion through contact with the human body...
...It is mid-March, halfway through the semester...
...There's always a somebody agripin...
...Maybe there is a female sheep out there really wanting another female, but there's just no way for us to know it...
...George Bush's stricken expression and lame words about an event that had the rest of mankind quickly singing hosannas were an awful letdown at a high moment in history...
...It will take a very long time to decline . . ." Another writer in the same issue, Charles H. Fairbanks Jr., strikes an even more ominous note...
...The class has already read more material than they ever knew existed on nonviolence...
...Because they're sexist...
...he starts out...
...In the current issue, one writer, Eric Chenoweth, conveys his revelation that Gorbachev "did not set glasnost and perestroika loose on the Soviet population to bring about communism's downfall...
...The students are also pretty used to McCarthy's eccentric teaching style, which mainly involves tossing out challenging ideas, then fielding—always with good humor and offbeat wit—the sometimes aggressive responses...
Vol. 23 • February 1990 • No. 2
