The Continuing Crisis
• As dread October gave way to November and execution day, President Bush spent the final week of his hapless campaign racking up bonus miles on Air Force One during last-ditch trips to such crucial...
...Throw in a few more sales of F-15s and F-16s, and we'll have a foreign policy as well...
...So now we've got this bizarre situation where Bush and Perot have accused each other of investigating each other's children," he chortled, forgetting at his peril the investigations that the tabloids have been making of his alleged children...
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...For Roxana Galdamez, it was a question of charisma: "Bush's face looks honest...
...The misunderstanding arose when Miss Madonna said she had nothing to declare, and the customs man couldn't believe she wouldn't help him conduct a strip search...
...Marshall could also qualify to serve as secretary of health and human services...
...The new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts will likely be Mr...
...It was a book, Rieff said, "decent people would be ashamed of having written...
...if 20 minutes, two hymns...
...It all has to do with boyfriends," one of the victims explained...
...Bush presented last-minute economic ideas evidently hatched in Little Rock...
...If the reason for this government employee's obscurity is that he was on extended sick leave, Mr...
...The ones who arrive late never apologize," the Rev...
...And ask Ross to look into reports coming out of South Korea that a few of the passengers of KAL 007 may still be alive in the former Soviet Gulag...
...In Los Angeles, California, an L.A...
...Henceforth, if the bride is 10 minutes late, he will cut one of three hymns from the service...
...It was a heroic odyssey, and an awfully lonely one, as the President who had abandoned all remaining links to conservatives and his own Vice President was in turn abandoned by same, not to mention all those Republicans running for dog-catcher, coroner, and United States senator...
...In London, where not that many generations ago even a besotted wastrel like Alfred Doolittle honored the propriety of getting to church on time, the Rev...
...It's a wonder the President retained the loyalty of his Air Force One pilots and stewards...
...The always reliable poll of Weekly Reader regulars had Mr...
...Quayle put it, an ugly charge as divisive and negative as the news on October 27 that the GNP had grown by 2.7 percent in the third quarter of 1992...
...and Canada before the start of game two...
...From what I've heard, I would vote for George Bush...
...Promised Greenwood schools superintendent Robert K. Brenton: "I say very candidly that we are going to re-evaluate the full process of how we edit these books...
...At least we know what he does...
...And after the untimely death of Professor Allan Bloom on October 7, the New York Times saw fit to remind the world of the generous words that its reviewer David Rieff had bestowed upon Bloom's 1987 bestseller, The Closing of the American Mind...
...In an election that was to decide our nation's future once and for all, it figured that schoolchildren would replace Reagan Democrats as the critical swing vote...
...Then there was the matter of all the "lip service" Clinton has been paying to women, as Mrs...
...John Marshall, the Los Angeles–based artist whose 7' x 15' Monument of the Unknown Government Employee was to be unveiled in November...
...His first priority upon re-election, he said in Denver, would be renewed spending on public works, to "get those steam rollers moving quickly...
...after half an hour he will cancel the wedding...
...Mark's Church, Dalston, has had it with brides thinking it their prerogative to arrive late for their wedding...
...How much kinder the atmosphere is in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where Miss April Schuldt, 17 and five months pregnant, was elected homecoming queen by the students of Eau Claire Memorial High School—much to the principal's displeasure, it should be noted...
...Who's she been talking to...
...Donald Pateman, 77, vicar of St...
...Chevette Francillette argued, "I think if anyone is going to vote, they should vote for Bush...
...Goldsborough, an attorney with offices in Easton, Maryland, was found guilty of kissing one client, spanking another, repeatedly spanking his secretary, and then lying about all these activities under oath...
...It's so discourteous...
...As for Margaret Pese, it was a matter of two minds finding themselves in sync: "I don't pay attention to politics...
...The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Atlanta Braves in six games to win the eighty-ninth World Series, an event marred by Miss Jane Fonda's presence each night in the Atlanta owner's box and by a Marine Color Guard's holding a Canadian flag hung upside down during the singing of the national anthems of the U.S...
...The lucky man this time around was M. Bernard d'Ormale, whom she wed at an undisclosed Norwegian location in August, according to an aide speaking on the record to reporters on October 15...
...On October 8, Mr...
...Boy Clinton reveled in the mischief that the midget Perot was causing Bush...
...The culture wars continue overseas as well...
...Although star pupil Barry Ward stayed true to Clinton—"he goes around the United States and visits all kinds of people in different environments"—a number of his classmates offered compelling reasons for preferring the incumbent...
...Never one to be outdone, Mr...
...As dread October gave way to November and execution day, President Bush spent the final week of his hapless campaign racking up bonus miles on Air Force One during last-ditch trips to such crucial precincts as South Dakota, Montana, and New Mexico...
...In Moscow, foundation president Mikhail Gorbachev was granted permission to travel to Berlin for the funeral of the former West German chancellor, Willy Brandt, and civility just may be taking root in America, too...
...The couple, he said, had met last June and "fallen in love immediately...
...County parking control officer ticketed a Cadillac parked illegally on Piru Street in the South-Central part of the city, but refrained from having the car towed away, out of respect for the driver, who sat behind the wheel, deceased...
...if 25 minutes, all three (and he sends the choir home...
...As revealed in letters to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, the President also won unexpected support among the eighth graders of the Robertson School in Daly City, California...
...Other spats were settled less amicably...
...Bridget Bardot is always in a hurry to marry...
...In Greenwood, Indiana, a recent high school graduate found herself embroiled in controversy after 500 Greenwood High yearbooks were recalled in which she had allegedly defaced the photographs of some of her comely rivals, blacking the teeth of one, penciling in underarm hair on another, scribbling an obscenity under a third...
...Outrage among normally polite Canadians was short-lived after it was explained that in America the event is known as the Fall Classic, after the time of year when it is only natural to see a 8 The American Spectator December 1992 maple leaf pointing downward...
...Unlike fickle English girls, the former French actress Mlle...
...They found a new name thrown into the hat, that of George J. Goldsborough, Jr., 67, Clinton's first attorney general if not nominee to the Supreme Court...
...Bush winning handily, 56 to 39 percent...
...Pateman laments...
...M. d'Ormale is himself an aide to the ghastly Jean-Marie le Pen...
...I personally would rather not vote at all...
...Fearful that victory suddenly may not be theirs, the Clintonistas rushed to complete plans for their first term...
...Now there's the sort of sentiment destined to receive wider currency as we move toward the Clinton-Gore millennium...
...Two drunken men tossed a grenade outside the McDonald's in Moscow, Russia, wounding five customers, and Madonna had a run-in of sorts while going through customs at JFK Airport after a European trip...
Vol. 25 • December 1992 • No. 12
