The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • November was a cruel month. Before it was over the Conservative party of Great Britain had shunted aside the longest-serving prime minister in more than 160 years and one of...
...If the American army goes into action against Mr...
...Joel McCrea, 84, one of Hollywood's wisest investors and richest actors, Sr...
...We see this both as an attack on gays and on this symbol," said Miss Sheila Allen, the very pretty if somewhat agelastic leader of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association...
...forty-five congressmen filed suit in U.S...
...Mr...
...Norwegian architecture suffered a blow when Mr...
...Discord is menacing the campus of Harvard University, where, in response to militant homosexuals' use of pink triangles to symbolize the wholesome side of sodomy, a group espousing traditional values is covering the campus with blue squares...
...Dexter Manley, reversing its lifetime banishment of him on drug charges...
...Mario Cuomo at a Fresno, California, summit...
...Buckingham Palace refused comment on reports that the Prince of Wales had visited "Avalon" in Glastonbury, Somerset, seeking a preternatural remedy for his shattered arm...
...He suggested that the United States give Iraq a Kuwaiti island or two, a chivalrous amarche seconded by Gov...
...Dale David Tinstman, 46...
...In London, Sergeant Mark Nurthen, 32, has begun libel action against a newspaper for a story that made the tall, virile policeman out to be, in the carefully chosen words of his lawyer, "a nerd and a plonker...
...Profiles and Interviews, edited by Mr...
...I know how it feels to be a woman," Mr...
...Carter predicts a "massive, self-destructive, almost suicidal war...
...The fatuous and remarkably corrupt members of the American Congress who had just hollered for tax increases on the eve of recession immediately began filing caveats about our stance in the Middle East, though many of them could not find the area on a map...
...Margaret Thatcher acceded to what seemed to be the wishes of her Tory colleagues, defiant but of good cheer: "It is rather a funny old world," she observed in apprising her cabinet of her forthcoming resignation...
...On November 5, Rabbi Meir Kahane was shot dead in Manhattan after delivering a speech to the Zionist Emergency Evacuation Rescue Organization...
...According to the New York Times, "homosexuals are becoming increasingly visible and active at Harvard...
...On November 26, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council agreed in principle to expel Iraq from Kuwait by force...
...Rather he fell on President George H. W. Bush at a scholarly conference on the Carter presidency held at Hofstra University, where his shrieks successfully deflected attention from the depressing subject matter at hand...
...Also among the month's casualties was Mr...
...Eric Bristow, former world darts champion, was charged with public intoxication in London, and the National Football League reinstated former Washington Redskin defensive end Mr...
...Two British birdwatchers, Mr...
...Before it was over the Conservative party of Great Britain had shunted aside the longest-serving prime minister in more than 160 years and one of the most creditable...
...Townshend attests in a wonderful new book, Rock Lives...
...The activists are protesting Philadelphia's decision to distribute two million Japanese-made sheaths to he-man Philadelphians, because the activists have found the sheaths tight and otherwise unequal to the rigors of local sexual practices...
...All residence halls now have tutors who can counsel students on issues of homosexuality," such as how to respond at the Yale-Harvard football game when the good-looking center hikes the ball between his legs to an equally good-looking quarterback...
...He died in Sussex at the age of 87...
...Ever since 1582, when the astrologer Dr...
...William Bennett resigned as drug czar to lead the Republican National Committee, and somewhere over Latin America, Mr...
...The offending portrayal appeared in the People's report on Sergeant Nurthen's rather thrilling raid on a joke shop that sold "chocolate willies" and even "wind-up hopping willies...
...Anderson was not cited for any driving violation and none of the eighty employees or customers in the building were mortally injured...
...RET...
...Anderson ruined an unblemished driving record that stretches back to 1948 when his automobile went berserk as he idled it in front of the Canoga Park Department of Motor Vehicles office while waiting to take his driving test...
...Martin Luther King Bidenized vast stretches of his doctoral dissertation from the work of Mr...
...Saddam Hussein...
...Skogstad has not been able to find his way back to the apartment for over a month...
...Laurence Durrell, 78, author of the Alexandria Quartet, this on the heels of the passing in late October of former Attorney General William French Smith, 78, Mr...
...King also Bidenized in books and sermons...
...Jermund Skogstad stepped out of his newly rented Oslo apartment for a sandwich...
...Workers at the Merita Bread Works in Greensboro, North Carolina, have been quietly notified as to the cause of their earthy-tasting coffee...
...Donald Kennedy, president of Stanford University...
...Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., to bar the President from waging war against Mr...
...On November 6, Mr...
...Former Senator George McGovern filed for bankruptcy...
...Saddam Hussein's dysentery-ridden troops, Mr...
...Frank Mackey, the Argentine fashion designer who has become the preeminent practitioner of that art in Brazil, became unhinged by a lovers' tiff and rampaged through a commercial airline, hurling ice cream at passengers, voiding in the aisle of the first-class section, and stripping to his shorts...
...Hearings began before the Senate Ethics Committee on the Keating Five...
...Michael Entwhistle and Mr...
...Seventy-two-year-old Mr...
...Cocaine was found in a hangar at the Kennedy Space Center, and on November 18, thirty-four nations signed an East-West disarmament treaty in Paris, ending the Cold War, the Nuclear Nightmare, McCarthyism, Ground Zero, the Military-Industrial Complex, and dozens of other bugaboos that have given meaning to the lives of our otherwise meaningless progressives...
...A row between a Japanese condom-manufacturer and anti-AIDS activists in Philadelphia has sadly diminished the world's image of the Japanese male...
...Meanwhile, in the American mid-term election 36.4 percent of the electorate returned to power 96 percent of the most deficient Congress since the days of the carpetbaggers and the scalawags...
...The ombrophilous twit added, "If we do launch an attack . . . we will reap great and very serious deleterious consequences politically...
...Jack Boozer—a startling report that, but one that originally appeared in the London Sunday Telegraph's December 3 1989, edition...
...John Dee pronounced the waters of the Avalon well therapeutic, the afflicted have visited the place to sip its earthy-tasting water...
...Former President Jimmy Carter has attacked another American President, though this time he did not journey to London or Tokyo to assail his successor...
...Rock connoisseurs who for many years have complained that Mr...
...Ron Dellums (D-Calif...
...The Crisis will not, however, end...
...He was 57...
...Timothy White, and doubtless published by some illustrious university press—Stanford University is a good bet...
...Xavier Cugat, 90, the "Rumba King," and Elliott Roosevelt, 80, long-time son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...The coffee tasted fine until about four months ago when it developed this earthy taste...
...John Anderson, of Reseda, California, may never drive again...
...County Magistrate William Hohenwarter explained: "This guy has been urinating into the well of the coffee machine...
...Tinstman has been charged with four counts of adulteration of food with intent to cause serious injury, though he could beat the "serious injury" charge if he proves to the satisfaction of the judge that he is a member of one of the many Hindu urine cults now spreading across the United States from the offices of Mr...
...The Wall Street Journal reported that the Rev...
...When he tried to return home he noticed that he had forgotten his address, and so standardized is the government-subsidized housing of Oslo that Mr...
...The beast veered off in a great arc, crashing through a wall and into the DMV of8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1991 fice where it came to rest beneath an eye exam chart and a sign reading "Report Here for Drive Test...
...Now Mr...
...Under the leadership of one of their most obtuse colleagues, the Hon...
...Pete Townshend, guitarist for The Who, sang as though he had a pillow in his mouth received unanticipated vindication from a published interview wherein the muzziheaded artiste admits to sundry homosexual accouplements...
...Mr...
...He is conducting his campaign to locate the dwelling from a hotel, but no one knows when his flat will turn up...
...Malcolm Muggeridge became an angel on November 14, and now the laughter that he brought to this magazine and to millions of willing and unwilling ears around the world will be heard elsewhere...
...The distraught workers changed their coffee brand and even purchased a new coffee machine, but the earthy taste remained until police arrested a delivery-man, Mr...
...in fact, it still goes unreported, for according to it the Rev...
...Timothy Andrews, have been declared the victims of Peruvian bandits, who apparently prey on birdwatchers in the jungles north of Lima, steal their wicker baskets and khaki shorts, and smash their glasses...
...Apparently, not many American journalists can read English, so the Telegraph story went unreported in America...
...We do know that late in October the Prince stopped by and sipped the earthy-tasting water, but the Palace remains mum as to his objective...
Vol. 24 • January 1991 • No. 1
