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CURRENT WISDOM zobi New Republic In downtown Houston, Hendrik Hertzberg confronts the occult: Kemp is a species of miracle I don't pretend to understand. How did a person of such obviously...
...Yet the article is titled "Gene Therapy Pioneer, Surgeon Wife Leave D.C...
...July 1, 1992] New York Times Magazine In the foremost organ of the modern urban sophisticate . . . a moment of prayer: If her intellect is rigorous and pure, so is her apartment, for aside from books and papers, the environment is strikingly Spartan...
...In a world where sexual orientation is polarized into heterosexuality and homosexuality, bisexuality comes as a disturbing challenge, at once a riddle and a discomfort...
...August 17, 1992] 68 The American Spectator October 1992 Washington Post (Health Section) Another happy American feminist makes a scholarly point after fastidious calculation: An article about the upcoming departure from Washington of "one of its high-powered couples" [Health News, June 30] contained thirteen paragraphs.' The career move of .the husband, W. French Anderson, is discussed in the first half of paragraph one and in all of paragraphs six, 10 and 11...
...July 23, 1992] Washington Post On the wails page of a great American daily, a patriot dares to speak out on one of the most vital issues of the day...
...A 15-year-old girl is being (playfully) buried on a beach...
...This apartment is the inside of my head...
...C.M...
...He had also just finished a damaging series about Dan Quayle's political prisoner...
...an 'urgent and humiliating plea for global equality, respect and understanding...
...She says she goes out seven nights a week with friends for dinner, concerts, plays...
...Clearly, this article primarily concerns the female Dr...
...Just ask any woman who has had one...
...Brown explained what he meant by "cellular awakening": "A new intelligence begins to be released from within the body itself, begins to send signals to the brain, developing a new consciousness, a new awareness, from that chemical action and reaction...
...She has never remarried, but she has many intense friendships, which constitute a kind of multifarious international bond...
...After all, the message they carry is that people need not die but can live forever here on Earth...
...Because you can never have enough...
...Otherwise, the play is set in more conventional Royal Court terms...
...Gasoline is rationed, but bicycles have replaced thousands of automobiles...
...In the countryside, there are more health clinics than gas stations per square mile...
...Margaret E. Estes Alexandria [August 11, 1992] The News (Boca Raton, Florida) Miss Lani Picard—artistic director of the world-renowned Balancing Barre for Women in progressive Boca Raton—marshals her considerable rhetorical and analytical potencies to take up the old burden borne so nobly in the past by the likes of Hegel, Marx, and George McGovern: Abortion equals a woman's deepest psychic, sacrificial and rebellious act against an ever-evolving, male-dominated environment resulting in a cessation of creation...
...military budget (liquefied) 1 pound dreams 1/3 cup chutzpah 3 cups love 2 cups political action 1 pound fun Directions: 1. Mix together chutzpah, love, dreams, political action and fun...
...There are shortages due to the U.S...
...Since man began turning his envy of matriarchy toward himself, women, in a subconscious retaliatory act, began using abortion as a weapon in the war of survival against this arrogant behavior...
...Medical care is excellent, free and readily accessible to all...
...Not only have I at different times lived with lovers, but I've had friends come and stay...
...Those who volunteer to work in food production can receive 100 percent of their wages...
...The infant-mortality rate is lower than ours...
...Who cares if laughter ensues, spitballs, paper airplanes, and, yes, condoms inflated with harmless helium—as if anything harmless can ever be put into a condom: The ASTM Standard D3492 for assessing condom leakage, which has been adopted by the Food and Drug Administration, consists of observing an absence of visual leakage when the condom is filled with water...
...Considering her abundant social life, I am amazed at the absence of furniture—there are so few places to sit...
...Have you always lived alone...
...No, no...
...The piece is called Hush because the question requires a pause for thought and prolonged, quiet discussion...
...Through a cellular awakening, the spirit is unleashed, the death program is eliminated and a new quality of life emerges...
...In this "special period," staples are rationed...
...During their unusually flexible marriage, Sharrard has enjoyed liaisons with half a dozen men, while Tessina has taken two female lovers...
...You go on...
...Doesn't she have friends over...
...The right-hand lane is reserved for bicyclists, and this form of transportation is clean and safe...
...She has phenomenal energy and stays out late, always ready to do one more thing, go one more place...
...Roland Washington [July 3, 1992] NEXT MONTH: P. J. O'Rourke unveils more New Enemies The American Spectator October 1992 69...
...September 7 & 14, 1992] Roanoke Times and World News Pat Pratali, still valiantly fighting the Cold War at the empty offices of something called the Plowshare Peace Center in Roanoke, Virginia, declaims from his time warp, with a tape of Peter, Paul, and Mary playing in the background: It amazed me to discover that Cuba was only minutes from Miami...
...In essence, what women have really been trying to communicate to this overindulgent patriarchal society is: Either get your act together, now, and listen to our message or we will use abortion to eliminate men from the face of the earth, entirely...
...It's the best of both worlds," declares Sharrard, who thinks nothing could be more natural than bisexuality...
...The girl subsequently demands, and gets, sex, from a character called Dogboy...
...How did a person of such obviously sincere concern and, more amazingly, respect for the poor and downtrodden manage to find his way into Bush's Cabinet and the hearts and minds of Bush's delegates...
...Electron micrographs reveal voids 5 microns in size (50 times larger than the virus), while fracture mechanics analyses, sensitive to the largest flaws present, suggest inherent flaws as large as 50 microns (500 times the size of the virus...
...The group claims that belief in physical immortality is a growing phenomenon and that 15,000 to 20,000 people around the world are on its mailing list...
...As the old CIA types in the Bush/Quayle campaign warm up their cloaks and daggers, I find myself concerned with the whereabouts of Trudeau, and this letter is the least I can do to repay his vigilance regarding our all-too-often corrupt government...
...It's a map of my brain...
...Ben & Jerry (Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield) are the founders of Vermont's all-natural ice cream empire...
...3. Yields health, education and playgrounds for all the world's kids...
...It amazed me to find no poverty...
...cities...
...On the other hand, "There is no scientific proof that human beings have to die," says Berna Deane, another member...
...from More Reflections on the Meaning of Life, by David Friend and the Editors of Life...
...Abortion is not an issue, it is a powerful weapon—a last resort...
...David Snyder, Roseville [June 19, 1992] Time While Sarajevo burns and Olympians triumph, someone by the name of Anastasia Toufexis in the "Behavior" section of a great gazette essays breakthroughs in the ejaculatory arts heretofore mainly associated with the inhabitants of Monkey Island at the zoo: Happily married for 10 years, Richard Sharrard, a dance instructor, and Tina Tessina, a psychotherapist and writer, blend nicely enough with their neighbors in the middle-class community of Long Beach, Calif...
...2. Transfer into saucepan and add military budget...
...But the couple's life-style is far from ordinary: Sharrard and Tessina are openly and unapologetically bisexual...
...August 12, 1992] Minneapolis Star A concerned citizen addresses the conscience of a nation and remonstrates somewhat courageously against the CIA's warmed-up cloaks and daggers: I would like to know whether cartoonist Garry Trudeau is alive or not...
...I personally feel that death does not happen naturally," says James Russell Strole, the third member...
...But everyone has enough to eat, and intensive volunteer production has proved very successful...
...Let's face it, physical immortality seems so far out it's unimaginable," says Charles Paul Brown, one-third of the group known as CBJ...
...A more appropriate title would have noted the departure of this eminent surgeon and then of her "gene pioneer husband...
...Education through university is free for all...
...You don't say you're tired or you've had enough...
...Reduce by half over high heat, stirring constantly...
...You need people around you encouraging you to be alive rather than to suppress your aliveness and to live in a world where you're programmed continuously that death is inevitable," Strole says...
...While this is an adequate test of the condom's ability to prevent the passage of sperm, it has been shown to be inadequate for revealing the presence of holes approaching the dimensions of the AIDS virus (which is only 0.1 micron in size...
...August 2, 1992] Lansing State Journal From historic Scottsdale, a cure for the common cold and, at last, something to believe in for the world's deflated Marxists: Three people in Scottsdale, Ariz., are used to being considered bizarre...
...The remaining nine and a half paragraphs detail the career move of his wife, Kathryn Anderson...
...Little, Brown, 244 pages, $29.95] Financial Times Traditional values on the British stage, as reviewed by Malcolm Rutherford: If socialism is dead, can liberalism survive...
...The three readily admit there is no scientific proof that human beings can live without death...
...August 4, 1992] The Great Books Series The immensities from two famous ice cream tycoons, for readers of a Life magazine potpourri: RECIPE FOR LIFE Ingredients 1 U.S...
...No...
...Suddenly, it's 4 in the morning," she says, "and somebody suggests something else...
...His comic strip, "Doonesbury," was in the middle of a series about Clarence Thomas when Trudeau recently left without warning for an eight-week sabbatical...
...It is an eternal agonizing sacrifice...
...The theatre has not approached such a new frontier for a very long time...
...It certainly contributes to better air quality in Havana than in most U.S...
...embargo and the dissolution of the Soviet Union...
...Another girl, temporarily employed as the house cleaner, wants to go off to Tibet to meet the monks, there not being enough sex on the beach at home...
...Do not be put off by such old hat...
...No woman intentionally seeks out or enjoys the idea of abortion...
...It's a mystery, like Gorbachev and Yeltsin coming out of the Soviet Communist Party...
...There is some unemployment, due to lack of petroleum, but employees who are laid off are paid 80 percent of their wages...
...The literacy rate is higher...
...Anderson...
...He then practically turns canine and, having killed his dog, kills himself...
...When recourse is made to condoms for the prevention of HIV infection, at least two should be worn during sexual activity...
...I like the idea that there are other bodies in other rooms...
...Physical immortality takes a group effort, they say...
...Moreover, there exists direct evidence of voids in condom rubber...
Vol. 25 • October 1992 • No. 10
