Current Wisdom
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CURRENT WISDOM Santa Barbara News-Press Still more evidence that Santa Barbara is the fla-fla center of America: I would like to know how Iraq's colonization of Kuwait differs from the pilgrims'...
...Dubowski cites National Institute of Mental Health figures that about 8 million Americans suffer from trichotillomania...
...And then you throw in this extra thing...
...The Trichotillomania Learning Center on Mission Street opened its doors on Jan...
...The Central Coast has experienced alleged abuse of high school cheerleaders...
...Rather than female hundred-pounders in Spandex, let's have males and females in a variety of bodies and dress doing ethnic dance, creative poetry, maybe some basic chaotic running around and yelling...
...Daddy and Frank are characters in "Daddy's Roommate" (Alyson Publications...
...Compatible with marital fidelity and supportive of it can be certain secondary relationships of some emotional and sensual depth, possibly including genital intercourse...
...Shave together...
...Overall, it was a way of working through a tough time in her life, our lives...
...She says that people don't often hear of the disease because victims are in a "shame bind...
...allegations that UCSB's cheerleaders were, at one time, required to stand on a bathroom scale before practice...
...March 16, 19911 Village Voice Historic action on both sides of the television screen, as reported by an exultant sociopath in the employ of the intellectual Village Voice: There's a lot of kissing on L.A...
...Australian Federal Police refused to comment on the allegations yesterday...
...February 10, 19911 Washington Post The Post's intrepid reporter Sue Anne Pressley ventures into the American Heart of Darkness and meets two New Age natives: On Katharine Brainard's "divorce quilt" is something that looks like a dead cat—a furry brown beast with black tire tracks running across its broken back...
...Only a catastrophe could offer them light at the end of the tunnel...
...Law, but one smooch on last Thursday's episode made history...
...The man allegedly said he wanted sex the way it was performed in his own country...
...He counsels readers not to assume that "the `correct' form of marriage and family life is eternal and unchanging in the Christian experience" and he suggests that the church should rethink what it means by fidelity...
...Born in Scotland, Ross is a 34-year-old Marxist scholar of American popular culture who was recently recommended by Princeton's department of English for tenure...
...Having never heard of it, they assume they're alone and are too self-conscious to ask for help...
...And, like other parents, Daddy and Frank sleep together...
...1 to educate people about this little-known disease...
...It is commitment to the primacy of the marital relationship over any other...
...I wanted to keep it warm and familiar, not at all threatening or radical," said Willhoite, who lives in Boston...
...To avoid hypocrisy, must we not return to where we come from so that the native Americans' land can be returned to them...
...Greg Bristol Santa Barbara [February 15, 19911 New York Times Magazine Fresh from Bughouse Square, the T. S. Eliot of our day: "I haven't been outside in 72 hours," Ross murmurs in his throaty Edinburgh burr...
...When she refused, the man allegedly struck her about the head until she did...
...The divorce quilt is on sale for $5,000...
...He entertains the possibility that marital fidelity and adultery are compatible...
...comes a reverent whisper from a group of graduate students nearby...
...Democrats despondently talk of canceling their convention bookings...
...The unchanging cheers, slogans and dance steps don't seem to have a place in the culturally and physically diverse 1990s...
...Dubowski emphasizes that trichotillomaniacs are "not people who sit and just play with their hair...
...A former roustabout on North Sea oil platforms as well as the former butler of the great-grandson of Giuseppe Verdi in Berkeley, Calif., Ross has so far produced three books and 50 articles, his subjects ranging from Batman comics and computer hackers to new-age trance channeling and the semiotics of the Weather Channel...
...Nelson argues that a distinction should be made between "infidelity" and "adultery...
...Brainard, a fabric artist who teaches classes on "emotions and quilting," said the piece became her therapy after her marriage fell apart in late 1989...
...and questionsabout recruiting practices that exclude underrepresented students...
...means hurtling between panel and symposium, publishing party and cash bar, seeing and being seen...
...But then, the labelers would probably declare I was down there because I was an atheist...
...Let's set a national precedent—get rid of cheerleading and replace it with an up-to-date alternative...
...Work together...
...February 28, 19911 Los Angeles Daily News Notice of a book about the life of Siamese twins...
...James Nelson, professor of ethics at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and a minister of the United Church of Christ, puts in a good word for the scortatory arts: Nelson's views on marital fidelity are spelled out in Embodiment...
...Guess again and be edified in the New Age: Daddy and Frank live together...
...Tall, lean, with saturnine good looks, Ross attracts attention wherever he goes...
...These incidents, in my mind, ought to cause our communities to take a look at what value cheerleading brings to our society...
...War let him show his toughness on the world scene...
...By the commercial break, my phone was ringing off the hook...
...It's what my ex-husband's girlfriend, whose name was Kitty, would look like if she got run over," Brainard said blithely...
...Lots of people are pulling their hair, but everyone thinks they're the only ones," Dubowski says...
...They hung yellow ribbons...
...It was one of those televised moments you know you'll tell your grandchildren about, like the Kennedy assassination or the gulf war, only good...
...So you want to be as reassuring as you can...
...March 11, 19911Washington Post In a spontaneous utterance, Peter Arnett shows himself to be one part cub reporter, one part sly boulevardier: I'd go anywhere for a story if there was enough viewer interest and CNN wanted coverage...
...Don Lubrach Goleta [February 16, 19911 Canberra Times Rough stuff among the saintly: Canberra police are investigating an allegation of sexual assault by a member of a World Council of Churches delegation on a member of another country's delegation...
...We had to sit there and take it," said a Democratic congressman who had clapped his palms sore and leapt often from his seat, sometimes preemptively...
...If you're pulling your hair and it causes discomfort, and you can't stop the behavior even though you want to—you probably have it," Dubowski says...
...February 19, 19911 Presbyterian Layman The Rev...
...That's Andrew Ross...
...The war showed the American public the kind of president it likes, commanding, headstrong, implacable—and above all lucky...
...Daddy and Frank do embrace each other a few times, but most of the book is about beach trips, playing baseball and catching bugs...
...I'd go to Hell itself for a story if someone important down there wanted to be interviewed...
...March 17, 19911 Good Times (Santa Cruz, California) Proof that the Ford Foundation remains active in the field of medical research: Ttichotillomania, or compulsive hair pulling disorder, is the focus of a new learning center in Santa Cruz...
...Bush had shown his ruthless streak in his campaign against Michael Dukakis, slamming him with inaccurate charges and innuendoes about his patriotism...
...CURRENT WISDOM Santa Barbara News-Press Still more evidence that Santa Barbara is the fla-fla center of America: I would like to know how Iraq's colonization of Kuwait differs from the pilgrims' colonization of this country when its only inhabitants were native Americans...
...The whole idea of divorce is scary to children...
...I am surprised that it has survived, in its present form, through American social-change movements such as the women's movement...
...February 5, 19911 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 1991 59...
...The dangers of cheerleading as it is include terrible gender stereotypes, eating disorders and the not-so-subtle degradation of the wonderful women and men of the area...
...She has had so much response, she said, that she would not be surprised to see a divorce-quilt fad spring up among recent victims of failed relationships...
...Clean house together...
...Cheerleading generally reinforces dangerous stereotypes of unrealistically weighted females...
...February 19, 19911 Washington Post Mary McGrory, two weeks after the Persian Gulf War and still on automatic pilot: They cheered the Tomahawk missiles...
...And until recently there has been no treatment...
...fidelity is the enduring commitment to the spouse's well-being and growth...
...That's him...
...For Ross, as for other rising stars in contemporary literary criticism, a good M.L.A...
...An increasing number of couples are reflecting sexual exclusiveness as essential to marriage and are seeing intimate 'satellite' relationships as positively supporting both marriage and personal growth," he says...
...January/February, 19911 Santa Barbara News-Press Another philosophical treatise from Don of Goleta: To me, cheerleading is an outdated, overrated and, frankly, degrading thing for young women (and some men) to do...
...When C. J., the cute Brit associate, kissed Abby the girl-lawyer-next-door and got ambiguously kissed back, I jumped up and down in front of the TV: for all the fantasies lesbians have about Cagney and Lacey, this was the first time I'd seen two prime-time women kiss on the mouth...
...Brainard's ex-husband said he views the work, after some difficulty, as "a healing quilt...
...14.95), one in a new line of books for and about children of gays...
...Bloodthirstiness, decked with sentimentality, was the national mood...
...It has been alleged a male member of a delegation asked another delegate to perform oral sex with him...
Vol. 24 • May 1991 • No. 5
