Current Wisdom
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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series A stupendous exegesis of Miss Marabel Morgan's famed hamburger metaphor from Dr. Carol J. Adams, who in less enlightened times probably would not be invited...
...In the face of the crumbling of the walls of communist oppressions, on the heels of which all totalitarian states would surely fall, we had the chance to tell our children there would never be another war...
...Walter P Coolidge St...
...Bernsen rolls on to his next concern: religion...
...His method: theater, scripts, movies...
...People treat this Earth like a motel room, because they think they're going to some other place...
...This ain't no motel—this is home," he went on...
...January 17, 1990] Washington Post TV Week Mr...
...Corbin Bernsen, the Olivier of "L.A...
...Moritz speaks out: President George Bush would do well to get out of the White House and walk among the destitute and homeless in America's big cities...
...I'll be 45 in the year 2000 and I'd like to think that I'm socially conscious and I'd like to be part of a world that's more socially conscious...
...All Americans have been robbed, also...
...Her sentence structure-=`like hamburger you may"—implies that hamburger prepares itself in a variety of ways, and so must you...
...February 9, 1990] From the Soviet Union to South Africa, societies are confronting their fundamental problems...
...What's that you say...
...Stuart obviously cared no more about the murdered minks that paid for a heated pool in his yard than he did about a murdered wife and son, who were to pay for his dreams to open a restaurant...
...Personally, I feel as if I've been raped and robbed by His Royal Majesty King George's actions in Panama...
...He demands 25 percent more money for Star Wars...
...Martin Luther King in an article on the Sunday Forum page...
...February 12, 1990] Santa Barbara News-Press And the pettiness continues: For the Record A quote was incorrectly attributed to Dr...
...Morgan fosters her own Shmoo syndrome in advising women to consider themselves like hamburger in serving their husbands' needs: "but like hamburger you may have to prepare yourself in a variety of different ways now and then...
...As one military officer said in disgust, "We look like a pitiful giant...
...The sending of 26,000 U.S...
...Though the referent is absent, women cannot escape recognizing themselves in it...
...Anthony Lewis repeats himself, repeats himself, repeats himself . . . : When has a President responded so feebly to the challenge of historic change...
...Conservative Soviet civilian and military officials, forced to watch in dismay as Communist parties collapsed across Eastern Europe, were quick to note the contrast...
...Stealth bombers and "star wars" are not what they need...
...One can argue that he didn't personally bloody his fingers in the making of the furs that he sold...
...here come the strong cramps I'm supposed to feel...
...Moritz, Switzerland [February 15, 1990] The Enterprise (Brockton, Mass...
...Women stand in relationship to the "total woman" as they do to "hamburger," as something that is objectified, without agency, that must be prepared, reshaped, acculturated to be made consummable [sic] in a patriarchal world...
...Each and every one of us is a god, a part of God, no less or greater than a snail or bamboo in the forest .. . This Corbin Bernsen sounds like a moralist, an environmentalist, maybe even a sort of evolutionist...
...He'll start out by producing and starring in a trilogy set just before the year 2000, a date he views as "a fresh start...
...A pro-Gorbachev diplomat said to me with visible despair, "Your President has given our opponents a wonderful New Year's present...
...He plans a theatrical release, primarily because of TV's restrictions, he said...
...I don't think it's a far-out idea...
...A future editor of the PEN Newsletter levitates another bull above the heads of amazed readers in far-out Brockton: In the growing list of victims exploited by the late Charles Stuart, there's one more victim no one has yet talked about: the animals killed for the fur coats that brought him in a cool $100,000 a year...
...America's problems are no secret...
...Cans, bottles and newspapers seem hopelessly passe when you consider the Russians are making jewelry, candlesticks and clocks from disassembled parts of SS-20 missiles...
...And how does George Bush respond...
...I wake up in the morning and I smile and I don't have to wait until Sunday and go into a concrete building or wait with other people...
...That country is the United States...
...I feel raped because the legacy of Southeast Asia, which has already violated our country, is still alive in the persons of Herr Bush and his sycophants, like Prince Ted of Alaska...
...The Communist Party is losing its monolithic grip on the Soviet Union...
...Other items on the inventory list include dolls made out of reindeer fur, wood platters carved with Russian fairy-tale themes, copper healing bracelets and Red Army uniforms...
...February 1990] Newsweek In the "My Turn" column of this famed weekly, an aesthete recalls the first of her visits to the friendly abortionist: During the procedure I sang "Here Comes the Sun" to myself as I stared at the ceiling...
...I want to study mankind at this time," he explained...
...It's like playing baseball after the earthquake...
...troops to capture the dictator of a tiny country shattered Gorbachev's assumption, already disputed among the Soviet national security elite, that Washington had accepted his "new thinking," which rules out the use of force to settle international differences...
...You," woman/wife, refers to and stands in for hamburger...
...This opportunity has been stolen from us by a jingoistic group whose greatest fear is peace...
...He no longer believes in going to church on Sundays, he said...
...This is just a skirmish...
...Afterward the doctor gave me some peanut-butter cookies and I went out to the waiting room feeling more cleansed and relieved than sad...
...February 12, 1990] SF (San Francisco, California) An inscrutable communique from the city by the bay: In the global recycling picture, the Soviets are definitely one up on the West...
...He goes on a tour to campaign for military spending...
...There has never been a time in the world like this, we say to each other...
...He asks Congress for new strategic nuclear weapons systems...
...I'd like to look toward a future, and not a future that looks bleak...
...In either case, the outcome for Stuart was the same: all he really wanted was to be able to wrap himself up in what society considers glamorous...
...Carol J. Adams, who in less enlightened times probably would not be invited to lecture at a major university: In Total Joy, Marabel Morgan unites women and animals through the use of the metaphor of hamburger...
...From The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, by Carol J. Adams, Continuum Publishing, 256 pp...
...Montandon intends to introduce this line of missile-art along with other choice Soviet crafts in her Perestroika shop, scheduled to open in SOMA sometime in April...
...I'm even having the Soviets send me a whole dismantled missile to go on the ceiling of the store," Montandon says...
...January 3, 19901 International Herald Tribune On the howl page of this venerable paper of the world, the Conscience of St...
...Immobilism is giving way to change...
...Oh, there is the whir of the vacuum the booklet said I'd hear...
...Perhaps one could argue that he did not pull the trigger on his wife—he just perhaps had someone else do the dirty work...
...At the same time, Montandon is working on exporting a line of cosmetics for Soviet women...
...Across Central and Eastern Europe freedom is rising...
...February 20, 1990] Nation For those 1960s leftists still sozzled on the hooch that flows so copiously from this old sponge, authoress Katrina van den Heuvel tells how George let Gorby down once again: The American invasion of Panama was the first—and in the West the least reported—setback for Gorbachev's domestic and foreign policies...
...I don't have to bless every meal...
...January 21, 1990] Anchorage Daily News For those who think the Village Voice mentality cannot be transported across state lines, we publish Mr...
...But hamburger, long before arriving in the kitchen of the total woman, has been denied all agency and can do no preparing...
...But first, he wants to clean up the place...
...When has the idea of American leadership been so mocked...
...Law," dumps the contents of his mind onto a page of the incomparable Post's television listings and levitates away: He talks of legalizing drugs, revamping the United States Constitution, scrapping religion and electing dual presidents...
...It is avoiding them, refusing to risk the uncertainty of change...
...And who more appropriate to lead us into the age of wearable weaponry than San Francisco's own arbiter of social decorum, Pat Montandon...
...Karen Carbone Rockport [January 27, 1990] 50 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1990...
...Just think of the new channels they've opened in the disarmament negotiations, not to mention being incredibly fashion forward...
...And just as animals do not desire to be eaten, Morgan's sentence structure subverts her attempt to convince women that they do...
...As far as I know, when I die I'm not going anywhere else, so don't mess up my heaven...
...You feel better about yourself if you put a little blush on—it takes your mind off the fact that you can't get a loaf of bread...
...The quoted matter is actually from the Bible, Isaiah 40:4-5...
...But one great country is not confronting its problems...
...Soviet republics are threatening to break away...
...Don Alexander's reaction to another of our government's failed attempts at World War III and Nuclear Holocaust: The Republicans finally got the gift they wished for in November 1988, namely, a war...
...I believe in far greater than that: I believe in life, that force in life that's in all of us...
...22.95] New York Times From among America's career indignados, Dr...
...We're going to make a video to show them how to apply cosmetics and send our people over to do makeup seminars...
Vol. 23 • April 1990 • No. 4
