Current Wisdom
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The Great Books Series Belles-lettres from Mrs. Ben Bradlee, inspired to new fictive heights by an infamous virus: The plan for her to appear on the platform the last night was the idea of the...
...Mila and Priscilla live happily with nine rescued chickens with whom they forage, dust bathe, and enjoy full run of our three-acre yard...
...At least you're not married to me...
...He had gone from an 80 percent approval rating to 26 percent, a free fall of public opinion due, in large part, to Sprague Tyson's stories in the Daily linking members of the administration to the drug trade...
...It's not surprising that a man who can't remember how he avoided the draft during the Vietnam War doesn't remember being a teenager either...
...October 26, 1991] The Great Books Series Feminist ingenue Miss Paula Kamen, an erstwhile co-ed and student journalist at the University of Illinois, finds herself trapped in the morbid world of the sexual hysteric: Educating myself about the prevalence of this violence and the cultural myths perpetuating it made me notice more and more things—all of which I didn't want to see...
...the New Republic...
...The third section examines usage of fruits and vegetables from a gender and social class perspective...
...Dinner will comprise a potluck of vegetarian dishes and several friends have been invited to share the feast...
...Heisley, Deborah Dale, Ph.D...
...They were all over Freddy, Foxy, Antonia, Garcia, and the rest of them...
...Northwestern University, 1990...
...I empathize...
...That's a sure cure, and we ought to be talking about it...
...Adviser: Sidney J. Levy Order Number DA9114557 First, the dissertation investigates gender symbolism of milk, eggs, fruits, vegetables, and meat...
...Sorry you had to read this...
...November 2, 1991] Washington Post Solipsism as practiced in a provincial New World capital: The New Republic has been nominated for "best liberal magazine" in the annual popularity poll conducted by Washington Journalism Review...
...Since the Daily had begun its stories, every other news organization in the country had picked up on them...
...Now even this classic escapist movie was offensive...
...Women are expected to eat produce and men are expected to eat milk, eggs and meat...
...In one scene, in a fit of alcohol-induced frenzy, Rhett grabs Scarlett and carries her upstairs kicking and punching...
...November 14, 1991] Washington Post The inimitable Governor Moonbeam, upon being skewered by the jocose Senator Kerrey of Nebraska: "Obviously, it's not appropriate to make fun of people—that's not right," said former California governor Brown, the butt of Kerrey's joke...
...Guys, get out your hat, your raincoat—whatever you want to call a condom—and wear it...
...Instantly I felt betrayed...
...Magic Johnson exhorts that Yankee sex move from the bizarre to the macabre, from sexual hygiene to sexual pathology, from sexual mania to kamikaze coitus—suitably wrapped: I was the one most NBA players looked up to when it came to women...
...from Happy Endings, by Sally Quinn...
...All along, unattractive women have been paying a high price because they weren't the targets of sexual advances...
...Then, for the God-knows-what time, I saw Gone With the Wind...
...Period...
...This was all aside from the fact that the President had tested positive for HIV...
...Warm colors are feminine and cool colors are masculine in the produce context...
...But what about the unattractive women...
...Professional men eat a less feminine set of items than professional women...
...The second section concentrates on specific traits that are seen to be feminine in fruits and vegetables...
...Then, maybe those "macho dudes" would leave me alone...
...Yet they continue to ignore the consequences of that quivering piece of flesh right at the end of their fork...
...Maybe by getting the virus I'll make it easier for you guys to be strong...
...Blanche had done a good job as First Lady...
...October 30, 1991] Breeze (James Madison University) A beautifully written letter from the colossal Pam Maddox, citizen of televisionland and the tabloids: I'm sure other women know what I'm talking about when I say that sometimes I wish I were obese, ugly and bald...
...255pp...
...In Animal House, I saw a scene where the hero, with the comical counsel of a debating angel and devil on his shoulders, was contemplating having sex with a teenage girl who had just passed out on the floor...
...Even so, though my confidence, assertiveness and self-esteem has increased quite a bit over the years, as it does with everyone, and I even hold a black belt in karate, the words and gestures that I am barraged with almost on a daily basis sometimes really get to me...
...Feminine traits are the presence of seeds, sweetness, roundness, juiciness, softness, smoothness, smallness and seasonality...
...For women, nutrition means light and non-fattening...
...Eventually, we become more hardened to it and learn to ignore it, to "tune it out...
...Rather I have blond hair (a curse in itself, because blondes stick out more) and am reasonably attractive...
...November 20, 1991] New York Times The brave and sublimely asinine Anna Quindlen, at it again: This is what it is like to be a New Yorker, to have to stop and constantly acknowledge pain...
...On the other side of the spectrum, one nominee for "best conservative magazine" was...
...The problem was that no matter how hard she tried the public didn't really want Freddy back in the White House...
...November 21, 1991] Press Release The Manson family has moved to Maryland...
...But at this point in my life, instead of feeling degraded and humiliated, terrible thoughts come into my mind such as crushing his windpipe, slamming his head into the concrete, or flattening his testicles with a brick...
...Rhett Butler, the prototypical debonair leading man, was committing a first-degree sexual assault, as defined by Illinois state statutes...
...We adopted Mila and Priscilla in October 1990 from Farm Sanctuary, a non-profit group in Watkins Glen, New York that rescues abused farm animals and gives them permanent homes...
...Meat is the most masculine...
...Fruits are more feminine than vegetables because they are ripened ovaries of plants...
...For men, nutrition means nutrient dense and strength-building...
...Meat is associated with male provisioning, hunting, and killing...
...I know that we are pursued by women so much that it is easy to be weak...
...Please join us for this special occasion...
...Our purpose in holding this holiday dinner is to draw attention to the friendly, companionable and affectionate nature of turkeys and to join with others throughout the country who have elected to adopt turkeys rather than eat them...
...November 18, 1991] Dissertation Abstracts International Scholarly research in a Dark Age: Gender symbolism in food...
...from Feminist Fatale: Voices from the "Twentysomething" Generation Explore the Future of the "Women's Movement," by Paula Kamen...
...So how do we deal with these clods...
...I lived the kind of social life that most guys in the league wanted to lead...
...They were frantic at his slip in the polls...
...Just as vampires, most humans are well suited as a metaphor for the whole human race...
...They then complain about automatic weapons, guns, and knives while they sit only miles away from weapons of mass destruction that could wipe out millions...
...The other side is being completely ignored...
...Although neither Sprague nor any of the others had nailed anyone yet and the allegations were vague, the perception of corruption and sleaze permeated the administration...
...For every job that was offered an attractive woman, there may have been a plain woman who was overlooked who was qualified for the job...
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...Earlier to me, instead of rape, it was just a case of pragmatically seizing the opportunity...
...Vic Forsythe, president of the Vegetarian Society, Inc., mounts his soapbox: It seems quite ironic that flesheaters have been killed en masse [in Killeen, Tex.] while stuffing their faces with pieces of tortured flesh...
...October 10, 1991] 80 The American Spectator January 1992 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) The formidable cerebrations of columnist and egghead Margie Bout& "Everyone's so concerned about attractive women being hit on and offered all these jobs in exchange for sexual favors," said a friend, who brought this subject to my attention...
...I would not say safe sex," Quayle said, "I would talk about abstinence...
...We also run out of washcloths, which get lost like socks...
...A few months ago, I noticed I was constantly running out of clean underwear, which does not go into the general wash and does not get done...
...This is consistent with a domination interpretation in which men symbolically dominate women and animals by the totemic oral incorporation of their reproductive capabilities and muscle, drawing strength from this act...
...I sympathize...
...I bring the dirty stuff into the shower, soap it up, and scrub myself down with it, before rinsing it off to dry...
...Donald L. Fine, Inc., 404 pp., $10.95 paper] The American Spectator January 1992 81...
...Ben Bradlee, inspired to new fictive heights by an infamous virus: The plan for her to appear on the platform the last night was the idea of the media types Freddy had surrounded himself with...
...for a Thanksgiving celebration in honor of our two turkey companions, Mila and Priscilla...
...I've spent weeks listening to women share painful memories of being hit on by bosses and co-workers...
...September 1991] New York Post Anthropological revelations from that ever-soignee columnist, Amy Pagnozzi: We all have our disgusting little habits and normally I keep mine to myself...
...So, being a resourceful but disgusting person, I came up with a resourceful but disgusting plan to save labor, eliminate washcloths and ensure a constant supply of clean(ish) underwear...
...Tubers are also masculine...
...Earlier to me, that had not been rape, it was romantic seduction...
...I guess I'm just fighting back in my own way...
...Working class women and men do not differ in stated usage, reflecting the working class female's deference to her husband in the area of food...
...Milk and eggs are most feminine because they are products of females' reproductive abilities...
...Images of rape and abuse of women were all around us, even in my favorite movies of long ago...
...But I never even glanced at the other side of the coin...
...The next morning, we see her nestled in her room, humming gaily to herself, looking more chipper and satisfied than even the most victorious of Yankees...
...She had overcome her image by reestablishing herself as a country singer and had garnered goodwill for raising funds for AIDS...
...But this one I'll share, so bear with me—there's a reason...
...Produce is feminine, related to the mythology of the female gatherer, and symbolic of the reproductive nature of "Mother Earth...
...They were, however, being discriminated against...
...Now I'm pleading for every athlete and entertainer who has also been "out there" to get tested and, from now on, to practice safe sex...
...October 24, 1991] Sports Illustrated Two decades into the bizarre world of sex education, a farfelu Mr...
...I think the lesson is that, given what we're doing [as presidential candidates], the intention must be to serve all the people and not make fun of one group or another...
...No less a person than the vice president of the United States told the press that the lesson young people should draw from what's happened is sexual abstinence...
...It doesn't matter how beautiful the woman might be or how tempting she might sound on the telephone...
...November 1991] Orange County Register Twenty-three people are murdered in Killeen, Texas, and Mr...
...Simon and Schuster, 544 pp., $22] Washington Post Vice President Dan Quayle gets a censorious swat from Richard Cohen, Washington Post columnist emeritus and legendary deflowerer of adolescent beauty: Now Magic Johnson is being enlisted in what might be called the just-say-no brigade...
Vol. 25 • January 1992 • No. 1
