Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Nation Proof that before his untimely demise Soviet Interior Minister Boris K. Pugo was an active if lonely Nation reader: Seeking Attractive Woman, 55, Marxist, Leninist,...
...We recently attended a charity ball in Washington...
...Finally, one says to the other, "Where are Thelma and Louise when you need them...
...With that in mind he has made the production shorter and highlighted the visual qualities...
...CURRENT WISDOM Nation Proof that before his untimely demise Soviet Interior Minister Boris K. Pugo was an active if lonely Nation reader: Seeking Attractive Woman, 55, Marxist, Leninist, Stalinist, Maoist...
...July 25, 19911 50 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1991...
...Red and yellow buses spewing billows of black smoke are packed with Cubans going every which way to work...
...July 29/August 5, 19911 Los Angeles Times Ellen Goodman, the celebrated dramatist, reports on how Boston's fierce night-riders are preying on that fated city's post-prandial ladies: It is a midsummer night and the two women are strolling back from dinner along the main street of their city-suburb...
...I realized they were not going to bite me...
...Bess, 2 Athenia Ave., Clifton, NJ 07013...
...Then calmly, she said, 'Daddy, don't you care about the Earth?'" The Arizona father and doctor, equal parts amused and amazed by his daughter's eco-awareness, had no good answer...
...The bottom line: Hesastopped running water unnecessarily...
...Equally, "boyfriend" sounds too jaunty and too transient...
...August 9-11, 19911 New York Times Ho, ho, ho...
...August 21, 19911 San Francisco Chronicle Spotted on the correspondence page of the Chronicle, a fossil from the lost Age of Brezhnev: While looking up a word in the dictionary, I stumbled across the word "Fascism...
...At Vortex, despite the presence of dogs, he decided to go with the flow and walk around naked...
...While this makes meetings a breeze, it presents its own set of definitional and etiquette problems for which I have not yet found a solution...
...The play, performed by the Brazilian theater company Rem do Ornitorrinco, has its world premiere on July 30...
...Then, like a dump truck that has unloaded toxic waste on illegal turf, they take off...
...Her arms beckon...
...Rebecca and some 250 other lesbians are mingling Ttiesday night at Lesbo-A-Go-Go, Washington's first lesbian erotic-dancer nightclub...
...If sports are the people's right in Cuba, fitness is regarded as a national responsibility...
...This is Rebecca, a beautiful 22-year-old woman...
...September 5, 19911 Washington Post Personal revelations, hortatory in nature and agreeably weird, from Mr...
...He's a former Capitol Hill staffer (assistant counsel, House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on crime...
...It's hard to argue with a charming little girl, especially when you know she's right...
...The two women are left standing in these fumes, breathing deeply...
...And they f---ing squashed him like a grape...
...One morning I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth...
...I think that's all there was to it...
...And I realized that all they were doing was being friendly...
...He says his life was changed at a gathering of the counterculture in 1970, the Vortex rock festival in Portland, Ore., a precursor to the Rainbow gatherings...
...They chat quietly and prepare for their daily exercise class in a ritual that is being duplicated in parks throughout the island...
...Monday's news of the Soviet Union's political upheaval faded with Monday's sunset...
...And the dogs would come up and sniff [me...
...Okay, I could have lied and said it was for my brother, right...
...In the midst of this after-dinner glow, a car fully loaded with young men pulls up beside them...
...Now, I work a lot, he works a lot, and we both travel, so that is certainly not an accurate description...
...He was just a positive guy who wanted to spread love and goodness...
...Michael Clement loses another round to his budding bore: For Michael Clement, the memory of a recent encounter with his 6-year-old is still vivid...
...The crowd whistles, cheers, screams as the couple embraces...
...Eric Sterling, appears to tell a reporter from the incomparable Post of a high point in his spiritual development: Sterling is the president of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation in downtown Washington, which promotes such ideas as alternative sentencing and drug policy reform...
...I saw them as part of the environment that was benign...
...Swiftly and with great hilarity, the four men spew out a sequence of lewd suggestions and vague threats...
...He (Bush) needs them to keep people in African countries down...
...Her face is brightened with sable eye shadow, coral lipstick, framed with blond curls, a flowery shirt...
...It's a ball...
...I informed him it was not for me, it was for my boyfriend...
...July 21, 19911Akron Beacon Journal The recent Soviet coup, explained by a prodigy of the rising generation: I think this is just the New World Order Part 2. I think this is all a part of Bush's plan to put a puppet in office so that he can control the Soviet Union...
...She is partly paralyzed on her right side, holds a cane with her left hand...
...A group of women in their 60's and 70's sits on concrete benches in Antonio Maceo park near central Havana...
...I mean Jesus was . . . back in those times, the Romans were just squashing everybody, and here came this guy who had positive thoughts...
...And he turned all these people on to these positive thoughts...
...Now he has taken to wondering each day what orders await him from the girl he and his wife have begun calling "Miss Ecology 1991...
...Barbara Miller sociology major Kent State University (August 20, 19911 New York Joseph Papp heaves up another of his dizzy marvels, best viewed by English language audiences after a session at the beer garden: Joe Papp's upcoming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which came under criticism when it was revealed that the play would be performed in Portuguese, is destined to cause more controversy: Some of the actors will appear nude...
...The patron backs away, flushed, excited...
...Even though the language might be a problem, nudity is international...
...Carolyn walked in and quietly shut off the water...
...Goodness, it sounds like we're almost there...
...July 29, 19911 Washington Post An appropriately lurid vignette from the social life of Weimar Washington, dutifully reported by the esteemed Post The 21-year-old go-go dancer pitches and rolls, a storm of sexual energy, an explosion of sweat, wanton locks, spike heels, pink kisser, strong thighs...
...This is a new day and a new adventure...
...He's also an ex-hippie...
...Duff McKagan of the rock group Guns n' Roses, arch enemy of the copulating and ponderous Romans and unexpected friend of the Pharisees: And finally, if you ask Duff McKagan about his views on religion, this is what he'll probably tell you: "I think the Bible's a good story, you know...
...Sports columnist William C. Rhoden, writing from the last Stalinist hoosegow even as the roof collapses back in Moscow, still sees Cuba in the rosy hues of the late Herbert Matthews —change this idiot's software: It is not quite 8 A.M., but Havana is a bustling, rumbling ocean of noise and fading pastels...
...All of a sudden all the people were going, 'This guy's f—ing groovy.' And the Romans were like 'Not that groovy, because he's f—ing taking over all of our people we're squashing, so we're gonna kill him.' And there's no such thing as the Immaculate Conception...
...Barney looked at me and asked, "Should we...
...Many of the female characters are topless, the men sometimes wear costumes that are little more than G-strings, and, in one scene, Titania wears nothing at all...
...It would mark the first time in the 30-year history of the Central Park's Delacorte Theater that Shakespeare was presented in the buff...
...Russia is the second-largest power in the world...
...Come on...
...I also think the term conveys a lack of permanence and seriousness...
...A patron, eyes a-gaga, approaches Holly Glass on her podium...
...It was a meaningful part of my spiritual development...
...She will lay it down when it comes time to exercise...
...Herb Moses, "a financial analyst for the Federal National Mortgage Association" and much, much more: I am the only member of the congressional gay spouse caucus...
...Tom Silva Napa (July 18, 19911Rolling Stone Historical revisionism from the lucid Mr...
...Straight and gay friends know us as Barney and Herb, but introductions to strangers require a fast read on the audience...
...The accepted gay term is "lover," but to me that sounds like we are always hopping in and out of bed...
...For two years of our four-year relationship I was in business school in New Hampshire and Barney was either in Washington or Boston...
...You're supposed to dance...
...Lace from Victoria's Secret, powder blue and white, clings to her hips, which sway to the rhythms of the music...
...After dinner, everyone danced...
...I had a fear of dogs," Sterling says...
...Shopping for clothes, I was steered to a different size by a clerk...
...A dollar bill is slipped down her cleavage...
...The longer we are together, the less inclined I am to fudge a response to guard the feelings of the inquirer...
...The director conceived it with the idea that most people here do not understand Portuguese," says New York Shakespeare Festival spokesman Richard Kornberg...
...The dancer crouches...
...And the longer we are together, the less inclined I am to mute my behavior for the benefit of others...
...It has been that kind of summer...
...One woman, perhaps in her mid 50's, has suffered a stroke...
...And the Romans did not dig that...
...They are carrying with them the leftovers of an amiable dinner table conversation about their world and their families—the mix of subjects that animate their lives and friendship...
...August 2, 1991] Washington Post At the twentieth national gathering of something called the Rainbow Family of Living Light, one of Washington's movers and shakers, Mr...
...Yeah," I said...
...July 4, 1991]USA Weekend The quotable Mr...
...The definition is as follows: "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with a belligerent nationalism...
Vol. 24 • October 1991 • No. 10
