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The Great Books Series An exigent "author's note" appended by Dan Wakefield to his New York in the Fifties, lest he stir up the neurotics, which is to say his clientele: In the 1950s, "Negro" was...
...Decked out in black Converse high-tops, she proceeds to seek revenge for Dorothy's killing of the Wicked Witch of Needle Sharing...
...cloth $20.95 -545-2...
...In Palms and Mar Vista, barricades went up around gas stations...
...Sandy Thompson Winchester [May 8, 1992] New Republic Kent State and the March on Washington are no more...
...Those of us who want to be mothers without the physical and psychological burden of man-pleasing need support, education, and equal opportunity rather than "matriarch bashing...
...Navy, of which he was very proud...
...Spry's wife, Lisa Kljaiche, said friends and family members called her at home Friday after reading the paper...
...The police later said the gang-bangers were looking to set a backfire to distract the cops from commercial Hollywood, where looting opportunities were plentiful...
...Crossing, $10.95 ISBN 0-89594-544-4...
...He had many friends in Fairbanks and San Francisco, where he had lived prior to moving to Alaska in 1979...
...Martha Wilson Founder and Director Franklin Furnace New York [April 20, 1992] Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska) The dignity of Alaskan journalism, shredded by an unknown wog with a mania for double-entendre: Fairbanks resident Gregory Spry died February 5, 1992, after a lengthy illness...
...Kristol's time to ponder...
...But . . . Glinda points Dorothy on her merry way, and she's on her journey to meet the great and powerful Wizard of A.I.D.S...
...The News-Miner fell victim to a hoax when it printed a phony obituary notice for Spry, 33, who works as a substitute teacher...
...and Mrs...
...She meets up with the Scarecrow (who hits on Dorothy because he doesn't have the "brains" to know about safe sex), the Tin Man (who is taken out of his rusty state with a water-based, nonoxynol-9 lubricant) and the Cowardly Lion (who was getting afraid to touch people for fear of getting AIDS...
...The tale ends like the movie...
...A tornado strike, and she is whisked away into that colorful land of...
...In the essays and poems in this anthology, a follow-up to Anita Hill's testimony at the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, women offer different accounts of sexual harassment...
...Kristol prefer a country of murderers...
...Kristol's American Enterprise Institute is funded—do taxpayers ultimately foot the bill for Mr...
...That usage was preferred by the young women I knew at the time, though their counterparts today would reject the term as disrespectful, even demeaning, and prefer to be called women...
...A.I.D.S...
...Details of Spry's life, as related in the obituary, also were incorrect...
...Later that evening, in one Hollywood Hills canyon near the center of Hollywood, residents enrolled themselves in an ad hoc militia after spying gang members cruising through the canyon's lower stretches...
...I always assumed that if I was going to be on the barricades," one resident told me, "I'd be on the other side...
...May 25, 1992] 64 The American Spectator July 1992 New York Times A combined marriage-and-genealogy report possible only in these times of marital daring: Valerie Jane Silverman, a daughter of Mr...
...May 25, 1992] State News In the student paper of Michigan State University, a stupefacient account of the wonders wrought by a pinhead: Myths . . . were crushed Wednesday as the Chicago-based HealthWorks Theatre offered its gentle comedic production of "The Wizard of A.I.D.S...
...In the 1990s, "African American" is for many the preferred designation...
...In using the terms "Negro" and "girl," I have tried to be faithful to the sound and speech of the 1950s...
...and Mrs...
...For the '60s lefties, it was a profoundly disorienting ordeal...
...I wonder how Mr...
...Some were quite upset, she said...
...A private memorial service is pending...
...When one considers the unreasonable psychological and physical prerequisites the average American male seeks when looking for a wife (objectification, fixation, conquest, domination, and unrestricted access) in addition to the white standards of beauty enforced by the media, only a small percentage of the American female population may qualify to be "wives...
...We need more controversial art, not less, to allow the troubling thoughts in our collective unconscious to bubble to the surface nonviolently, to become part of public debate and, it is hoped, to be resolved...
...May 17, 1992]Publishers Weekly More horror stories from the pre-suicide set—tres chic: SEXUAL HARASSMENT: Women Speak Out Edited by Amber Coverdale Sunrall and Dena Taylor, introductions by Andrea Dworkin and Margaret Randall...
...Debra Kuperberg tells how, as a student teacher of youths at a maximum-security facility, she found it easier to cope with the incarcerated students than with some men on the staff...
...Musical numbers are changed to reflect a health-conscious edge...
...He is survived by numerous relatives in Kentucky, where he was born, and by his longtime companion Rod Steele of Fairbanks...
...The white city girded for violence...
...Why isn't the government mobilizing the thousands of men and women in this country who have been working on diversity issues in businesses and educational institutions—multicultural specialists who can help undo the racism that is at the root of this shameful situation...
...May 14, 1992]Wall Street Journal Another dirty-minded girl becomes bloody-minded via Art: In regard to Irving Kristol's March 16 editorial-page essay, "What Shall We Do With the NEA...
...But, like in the movie, there is plenty of camp...
...However, I agree that the most widespread attitude toward the NEA is a "negligent, deferential" one that in my opinion does not recognize the value of controversial art...
...As one resident recounts it, a canyon filled primarily with "film industry and theater people" managed to come up with an amazing array of guns...
...The couple changed their surname yesterday to Flaherman...
...I do not intend any disrespect to current sensibilities by such usage...
...I have a lot of friends with a warped sense of humor," Spry said...
...If so, I should like to be the one to murder him...
...This is the effect of her book (as it was of her famous story, "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt," which was, as everyone always guessed, autobiographical, and whose protagonist she now reveals: George Black of Sewickley, Pa...
...Bennet H. Silverman of Hastingson-Hudson, N.Y., was married yesterday to Michael Thomas Flaherty, a son of Mr...
...Thomas Flaherty of Norwell, Mass...
...It is this refusal to do so that illuminates, suddenly, for the reader, the triviality or vulgarity of conventional behavior...
...Keyah Davis St...
...Instead of artists, would Mr...
...After leaving the Navy, he managed a sheep farm in New Zealand...
...He was 33...
...The Great Books Series An exigent "author's note" appended by Dan Wakefield to his New York in the Fifties, lest he stir up the neurotics, which is to say his clientele: In the 1950s, "Negro" was the accepted term of respect for the minority people who in the next decade would find both beauty and power in the word "black," which before then could have been taken as an insult...
...Aware Individuals Deserving Survival), where knowledge is kept locked away by the Evil Wicked Witch of Unsafe Sex...
...The Wicked Witch is killed (by a human-sized body condom) and Dorothy returns home by chanting "There's no sex like safe sex" over and over...
...Because art can be (and significant 20th-century art has been) made of such unlikely materials as a urinal, a Campbell's Soup can or a plastic crucifix, the panels of the National Endowment for the Arts are "conflict-free"—no individual on the panel will benefit through a grant or an exhibition from the decisions made...
...In the 1950s, a definition of the word "girl" in my American College Dictionary (a standard reference book of the time, published by Harper's) was "2...
...Contacted at West Valley High School, Spry said he believes the obituary was submitted to the News-Miner by a friend as a practical joke...
...a young, unmarried woman...
...and other cities, I was filled with despair...
...He will be missed for his easy smile and willingness to bend over for anyone in need...
...Spry was a veteran of the U.S...
...The show, which started as a project from a University of Iowa student, was well performed...
...She makes you realize it would be vulgar to conceal that you had slept with a strange man on a train...
...Paul [May 18, 1992] Boston Globe Grim evidence that there survives in this historic Republic the mentality of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Watch and Ward Society, and Rockefeller Republicanism: On hearing that thousands of National Guardsmen were being sent to L.A...
...Rabbi Beverly Lerner officiated at North House on the campus of Harvard University...
...from New York in the Fifties, by Dan Wakefield, Houghton Mifflin, 355 pages, $24.95] Washington Post Book World Anfractuous bulsh from the very intellectual Miss Diane Johnson whilst reviewing Mary McCarthy's Intellectual Memoirs: Autobiographical memoirs are of course a project of self-presentation, but one quality of Mary McCarthy's truth-telling is that though she judges herself by her own exacting standards, she also does not judge herself by conventional standards...
...He served two tours of the Mediterranean and would often reminisce about his liberty calls in Israel and Greece...
...The injection of humor makes the lessons accessible and sharp...
...Dorothy informs Uncle Henry and Auntie Em (who think people with AIDS should be quarantined) of human rights, and that AIDS has killed more people than the Vietnam and Korean Wars...
...As church and state are separate in the U.S., "blasphemy" is not even a legal term...
...Adriane FughBerman describes the sexism laced through her medical-school training, while Diane Hugs relates how a doctor exploited her paraplegic condition to fondle her paralyzed limbs .. [March 30, 1992] Minneapolis Star Tribune The straightforward response to the Murphy Brown atrocity by another All-American gal in the yowling columns of a famous northern gazette: Matriarchy has always been a world-wide cultural alternative...
...An uneasy coalition of '60s liberals and survivalists then blocked off the mouth of the canyon with cars, and stood guard there all night (and the following two nights as well), brandishing rifles and bats on the several occasions when cars carrying young black men drove by...
...What shall we do with Irving Kristol, and the conservative viewpoint that contemporary art has anything to do with obscenity, pornography and blasphemy...
...February 9, 1992] The American Spectator July 1992 65...
...He was a talented cartoonist, volleyball player, and ultralight pilot who will leave a void in many lives...
...February 7, 1992] To borrow a phrase from Mark Twain, the report of Gregory Spry's death was greatly exaggerated Friday in the Daily News-Miner...
...Perhaps he has a cure to the disease...
Vol. 25 • July 1992 • No. 7
