The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • April, as the poet has it, is the cruelest month of all—though in 1990 it is but one of four consecutive cruel months, at least for those ideological heirlooms who still...
...Willie J. Collins stormed into police headquarters, deposited a packet of crack cocaine on the desk of Officer V. J. Williams, and demanded the arrest of the drug pusher who had sold it to him, because he had "paid $20 for it, and it wasn't any good...
...Them in that astonishing community, 2,000 marchers turned out representing such little known organizations as "Environmental-Based Healing Arts," "Philippine Women Against American Bases," "National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws," and something called the "Young Democrats...
...Michigan State University ended its All-University Diversity and Excellence Conference by conferring ten munificent "gifts" on local boomers of affirmative action and equal opportunity...
...Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 51, of the Church Universal and Triumphant, that on that day the earth would not make it, owing most likely to nuclear attack from the Soviet Union...
...Salman Rushdie, the author of various impieties against Islam who is now living under the protection of what he was wont to call Mrs...
...The poster read "Loni, Fill Our Potholes...
...Tim Hadac, the exultant spokesman for the city's Department of Health, "By putting them up for bid, we can buy a year's supply in one crack . . . "—though he did not explain the purpose of this extravagant act...
...At the beginning of April, the journal Science reported that data gathered by the Tiros-N series weather satellites proved that there has been no global warming over the past decade—but Earth Day was held anyway...
...Phillips...
...Miss Sarah Vaughan died, as did Mrs...
...The Chicago Tribune reports that the City of Chicago is soliciting bids to purchase 250,000 condoms to be distributed gratis at AIDS testing sites...
...no deaths were reported...
...James F. Murphy, shot at an obstreperous student but missed...
...Practically everyone in Eastern Europe is now an ex-Communist, and the metamorphosis is even transforming many Soviet citizens into ex2s...
...The FBI reported a three percent rise in crime last year, causing police to increase their vigilance...
...Margaret Thatcher's police state, continues to bite the hand that feeds...
...Boasting of his generals' competence in the art of chemical warfare, Iraqi strongman Mr...
...Frances M. Phillips, 43, who previously had slapped a Florida prosecutor in the face after her son was sentenced to three years imprisonment, was sentenced to ninety days in the Santa Rosa County slammer...
...Loni Hancock, Berkeley's sandalista mayor...
...Scott is precisely the kind of sap one meets in Hick Town...
...The reclusive actress Miss Greta Garbo died, eliciting a reprise of surprisingly garrulous tales about that which does not easily inspire comment, namely, a person's absence—and in Miss Garbo's case a not particularly intelligent person at that...
...And so Godless has America become that the militants of Miss Madalyn Murray O'Hair's American Atheists have had to go twenty-five feet below the waters off Key Largo to take offense...
...The reef has since become a responsibility of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the federal government, and it is the judgment of the professional atheists that its statue violates the constitutional separation of church and state...
...James Brown, the soul singer and winner of two Grammy awards, was freed from prison where he has been serving sixteen months of a six-year sentence for aggravated assault...
...THE CONTINUING CRISIS • April, as the poet has it, is the cruelest month of all—though in 1990 it is but one of four consecutive cruel months, at least for those ideological heirlooms who still cling to the antique belief that history progresses ever leftward...
...In Atlanta, Georgia, an indignant Mr...
...Ex-socialists proliferated throughout the United Kingdom during the prosperous 1980s...
...April was another intellectually challenging month at Columbia University, where on April 18 a very enlightening seminar analyzed quiddities mined from the fascinating theme "Hair or Bare: The Politics of Women's Body Hair...
...Also, the birthday of Megumi Ikeda was observed in the customary manner...
...Declared a Mr...
...Estonia joined Lithuania in agitating for independence from the Soviet Union, though President Mikhail Gorbachev responded inhospitably and, in the case of Lithuania, grimly...
...Yet back in Hick Town, USA, the yokels hold fast to their barbaric orthodoxy and snarl at the bold capitalists and democrats in the outside world...
...New York City has announced that its top scofflaw is Miss Sylvia Matos of Manhattan, who has compiled parking violations amounting to $171,746...
...Consumerism remains rampant in the land...
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...he only gets worse...
...Eighty-seven late-night revelers passed away in the Bronx after a fire was lit at the Happy Land Social Club by Julio Gonzales, who allegedly desired the death of his ex-girlfriend, Miss Lydia Feliciano, a Happy Land employee who survived and turned the lout in...
...Among the world's intelligentsia there are now growing numbers of ex2s everywhere but in the United States...
...The film Domestic Bliss was sponsored by the jovial controversialists of Columbia's Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Gay Coalition, which also showed the film Tongue Tied...
...The people who were being awarded were very moved themselves, almost to tears...
...In religious news, April 23 passed without incident despite the prophecy of Mrs...
...In Portland, Maine, an especially tough school crossing guard, Mr...
...Jesus Christ has been corrupting the fish since the 1960s, when an Italian industrialist donated it to the Underwater Society of America...
...Echoing the German shout of a month before, Hungarians elected a conservative-dominated government in their first free elections in forty-three years...
...Saddam Hussein threatened to annihilate half of Israel...
...Nonetheless, no civil rights group has risen to resist this subtle defamation...
...he goes for days without a change in underclothing...
...Robert Polhill was freed by Islamic fanatics who had held him captive for over three years, and on April 24, a lachrymose Mr...
...In Yugoslavia, Croatian nationalists voted in overwhelming numbers...
...The whole world changes but not America's Liberal academic...
...The faithful marched from Martin Luther King Park along a circuitous route that brought them back to Martin Luther King Park, though few seemed to notice where they were as they paraded along, glassy-eyed, on pogo sticks, stilts, roller skates, and in automobiles that had no motors and were perforce pushed by the most ardent of the marchers...
...In San Francisco Mr...
...Census Bureau...
...which, of course, would leave him in serious trouble with the other half...
...The repression of free expression continues throughout George Bush's America...
...Michael Milken, the junk bond genius, pleaded guilty to six felony counts and agreed to pay $600 million in penalties...
...They did notice the contribution of an American Spectator collaborator who sent a biplane flying overhead and pulling a banner addressed to Mrs...
...The day before, millions of nature lovers observed the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day despite the spread of nuclear 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1990 power, oil spills, disposable diapers, Alar, asbestos, cigar smoke, and other alarming phenomena against which we mere mortals can do nothing...
...When British judges refused to allow local Muslims to prosecute him under the British blasphemy laws, the creep admonished Parliament to repeal the laws as "dangers for freedom of expression...
...Many apprehensive Americans began the solemnities a day early on April 21, and none with more fervor and general buffoonery than the crazed citizens of Berkeley...
...Marjorie Weil, who in 1932 invented the modern way to mass produce sliced Melba...
...And in a heartening display of libertarian bravura some 40 percent of the American people resisted the importunities of the U.S...
...Breaking with statist policies that have been petrified since 1910, Mexico agreed to consider free-trade negotiations with the United States...
...I found it one of the most moving awards ceremonies I have been to," sniffled University Provost David Scott...
...In fact, were the late Professor Richard Hofstadter to write his classic study, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, today, he would have to include a second volume on the intellectual torpor of Academe...
...On April 11, Mrs...
...Hick Town, USA, of course, is the American college campus where there are whole English departments composed of illiterates, history departments where the profs are in doubt as to the approximate date of the Norman Conquest or as to what Norman's last name might have been, departments of social science where the faculty is neither social nor aware of any science beyond astrology...
...Charles Rivera of the Bronx with $149,342, followed by eight other Latin names...
...Today progress is to the right and rightward we go...
...Donald C. Knutson, 59, a co-founder of the National Gay Rights Advocates, died of Rock Hudson's Disease, as did the fashion designer Halston...
...The jail is in Milton, Florida, in the event that the editors of the Progressive or the Nation should want to enter subscriptions for Mrs...
...Ex-Marxists have been multiplying in France ever since the 1970s, when the writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn were secreted into the land of Sartre...
...Unfortunately, also rampant in the land is the war against drugs, and Officer Williams arrested this Naderite of the streets...
...Yet there, on a federally protected coral reef, a shocking statue of Mr...
...Second was Mr...
Vol. 23 • June 1990 • No. 6
