The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • With world leaders jetting to and fro with much ado, July turned out to be the busiest summer month in memory. President Bush alone traveled to Kennebunkport, London,...
...And in Reno, Nevada, CBS Records and the British rock group Judas Priest are being sued in the suicide-pact deaths several years ago of two young men said to have obeyed a subliminal signal in a Priest album to "do it, do it...
...military, has tightened rules on cosmetic surgery undertaken for "personal nontherapeutic reasons...
...Otherwise, the news was uniformly unpleasant...
...Havel told a group of disbelieving American newspaper editors that he supports the jailing of journalists who publish state secrets...
...Chris Dickerson, whose "amazing shape" was enough to convince the critic Mr...
...In entertainment news, police in Cheverly, Maryland, confiscated 191 video tapes and some town-owned equipment from the studio of a local Francis Ford Coppola, who by night films the activities of neighbors in their bathrooms, allegedly with cameras that by day record the proceedings at Cheverly's town meetings...
...Scotty's twenty-eighth marriage...
...Most of it is pretty repetitive," according to Police Sergeant E. W. Day, who seems ignorant of the tapes' artistic potential...
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...In Sofia, Bulgaria, the embalmed body of Mr...
...LaSalle, but the main reason for watching the older women was to see "which ones can beat the odds and maintain any kind of structural dignity in the upper thigh region...
...In New Jersey, the state supreme court has ordered the two remaining men-only eating clubs at Princeton University to admit women, which is fine, but won't resolve who'll do the cooking and the dishes...
...Gorbachev's campaign coffers...
...President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia had his ups and downs as well...
...Let the real wars begin...
...The Pentagon, in an effort to reverse the feminization of the U.S...
...Stephen L. Gobie, his former housekeeper and driver...
...In religious news, the Jewish Press reported on July 6 that a high rabbinic court in New York City has excommunicated Rep...
...The worry is that they will wind up like the Rev...
...Georgi Dimitrov, the founder of Communist Bulgaria, was secretly removed from its mausoleum and cremated beyond recognition...
...Some of those teachers could still be plying their trade at Stanford University, where President Donald Kennedy has approved a policy designed to protect certain students from the "fighting words" of other students by outlawing all forms of "discriminatory harassment"—that is, "speech or other expression . . . intended to insult or stigmatize an individual or a small number of individuals on the basis of [his, her, or] their sex, race, color, handicap, religion, sexual orientation [or position] or national and ethnic origin...
...Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., chief abortionist of the United States, has resigned...
...The Indiana Board of Barber Examiners has still not acted on a female barber's request for permission to open a topless hair-cuttery in downtown Indianapolis...
...Roberto Napoleone the most tragic Italian figure since Il Pagliaccio...
...But then a strange thing happened, when in Prague Mr...
...Glynn "Scotty" Wolfe, 81, of Blythe, California, who is getting married and divorced again, though not necessarily in that order...
...As Americans lost track of their President, his job approval rating fell in the Gallup Poll to 63 percent, the lowest since May 1989...
...Olympia, 50-year-old Mr...
...He certainly hasn't read the open letter sent to Mr...
...As the Cold War passes from mem6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1990 ory, U.S-Soviet relations are getting awfully cozy...
...Not a body to be outdone, the House ethics committee found Rep...
...Worse still, a week later Mr...
...This has left Mr...
...Whereas under Khrushchev, as epitomized in the movie about World War II The Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o Soldate), a Soviet male would fight Germans to the death and spend what leave time he received on a desperate journey to visit his mother working the fields back in the home village, the new Soviet male hobnobs with fat Germans in the Caucasus and forgets where he came from while his aging mother complains to the press that her son never calls...
...If all goes according to plan, it will be the monogamous Rev...
...It's not known if we'll hear from them again...
...In Oregon, the environmentalists' fifth annual Concert in the Forest may not be held this summer in the Willamette National Forest, so as not to disturb a breeding pair of spotted owls recently observed within 1,500 feet of the concert site...
...Havel was making plans to meet with renegade President Kurt Waldheim of Austria, while in Banovce nad Bebravou, Czechoslovakia, a plaque was unveiled at a former teachers' college in honor of its founder, the Rev...
...Mick LaSalle that "hours of pain went into every muscle...
...The female contestants, by contrast, had a harder time making an impression...
...How the tenor of Soviet life has become uglier under Gorbachev...
...But it was at the National Gay and Lesbian Bodybuilding Championship in San Francisco that the male hegemony proved toughest to crack...
...A major Washington weekly made him the subject of an adoring cover story, and during the Public Broadcasting Service's live broadcast of a Fourth of July concert from the Capitol, he was invited to deliver greetings to the American people, the only foreign head of state to appear on PBS that night...
...One highlight was the "posing routine" of 1982's Mr...
...In a scene straight out of a Havel play, plaque organizers acknowledged that although Tiso's role in the deportation of Slovak Jews to Nazi death camps was "unforgivable," they thought it good to commemorate his contribution to the training of teachers...
...Frank guilty of fixing parking tickets for Mr...
...To drive the point home, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev chose a place hitherto unnoted by white male historians, Zheleznovodsk, Russia, to sign the historic agreement allowing a reunified Germany to remain in NATO in return for major German contributions to Mr...
...Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, by a score of Hollywood film-makers protesting the X rating given to Mr...
...Nucla, Colorado—not to be confused with Jimmy Carter's pronunciation of the dread word nuclear—played host to this year's Top Dog World Championship Prairie Dog Shoot...
...But Mr...
...About the only other good news for women this July was that the summer heat may reduce male fertility, according to researchers at North Carolina's Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology...
...Barney Frank (D-Mass...
...Jozef Tiso, better known as the head of the Nazi puppet state of Slovakia during World War II...
...The plaintiffs' case rests on the not unreasonable assumption that this was the first time the young men had ever taken orders from anyone...
...for "desecrating the Name of G-d and the Jewish People, for bringing dishonor and disgrace upon the high office of Congressman, and for promoting and encouraging the moral corruption of society...
...For instance, when NASA suspended two veteran astronauts, Space Shuttle commanders Robert "Hoot" Gibson and David Walker, for flight safety violations worthy of the late Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Aleksandr Balandin in instinctive solidarity locked themselves out of their Mir space station...
...The University of Minnesota has banned its dance line of sixteen women from men's athletic events, a decision the dancers greeted with "shock, anger, and sadness," perhaps because they will now be required to perform at women's athletic events instead...
...President Bush alone traveled to Kennebunkport, London, Houston, Yorba Linda, Boise, Billings, Cheyenne, Newport News, Camp David, New York, and Philadelphia, leaving those of us dutifully stranded inside the Beltway concerned there might be something to the notion that history can no longer be made in Washington, D.C...
...Gorbachev fared rather worse, particularly after taking Kaiser Kohl to his old stomping grounds in Stavropol and—according to Komsomolskaya Pravda—making no effort to visit his 79-yearold mother in nearby Privolnoye...
...Whereupon the university set out to stigmatize an individual on its own by letting on that Miss Lupe Vasquez, 18, of Oxnard, California, is the first homeless person to attend Stanford...
...Napoleone is the Communist editor who had gone to Moscow in search of supporters for his international Save the Lenin Monuments Fund, having called the recent scrapping of a Lenin statue in Krakow, Poland, "a sacrilege" Finally, The American Spectator is celebrating the purported end of the Cold War by moving its offices to a hill overlooking Washington, a site well within shelling distance of the new Soviet embassy, major media centers, and Capitol Hill...
...Not only was the turnout for their events small, reports Mr...
...Wayne Wang's new film, Life Is Cheap . . . but Toilet Paper Is Expensive...
...In a move that could mark the beginning of a Protestant Counterreformation, a Lutheran bishop in San Francisco announced that he will back the ordination of gay ministers provided they remain celibate...
Vol. 23 • September 1990 • No. 9
