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CURRENT WISDOM New York Times Miss Kathleen Quinn resorts to a crafty heuristic device to demonstrate another of those immensities that elevate a dullard like this above the commonplace and into...
...Raelyn Gallina, an East Bay piercer who has a lot of female clients, organized the event and did much of the piercing...
...Douglas R. Weiner makes the conventional Liberal's customary plea for missing the point, avoiding the obvious, and, in general, affecting the bleary-eyed muzziheadedness that is the proud characteristic of America's bovine intelligentsia: It would be a pity, however, if we drew the restricted conclusion that this sobering story was merely an indictment of the Communist system...
...There's this discovery: "I had no idea women were such fun...
...March 13, 1992] 66 The American Spectator August 1992 The Great Books Series Ars poetica from Sen...
...Just be sure to allow six weeks for your change to take effect...
...Incidentally, if you want to hear the latest version of Orwellian fist-speak, not from the left this time, try Bill Clinton's invocation of "the Amurrican people" or Jerry Brown's litany of "take back this country"—from whom, to what...
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...and a number of "serious athletes" compete in the events, overall the Games reflect a value system and a vision based on feminist and gay liberation ideals of equality and universal participation...
...It was played by gangsters...
...They should be stronger, longer lasting, and less sensitive to heat, humidity and oil-based lubricants...
...Basically," she says, "the world is meaningless...
...In sharp contrast, consequentialand caring friendship relationships have been fully developed between male puppets: Ernie and his best friend Bert...
...Houghton Mifflin, 406 pages, $22.95] Philadelphia Inquirer Another pair of happy and graceful Yank feminists, Diane Heiman, a "public policy consultant," and Phyllis Bookspan, a pettifogger at the Widener University Law Center, apply their analytical organs to one of the last bastions of male privilege: A recent report released by the American Association of University Women, "How Schools Shortchange Women," finds that teachers, text books and tests give preferential treatment to elementary school boys...
...This is wonderful...
...Men and women who spoke, lived and wrote before the Deluge of Crap...
...June 11, 1992] The Great Books Series Ontological ripplings from the inimitable Mike T.: Though many of the events in the Gay Games are "conventional" sports (track and field, swimming, etc...
...May 27, 1992] Boston Globe An intriguing communiqud from columnist Susan Trausch, tapping out the immensities from her padded cell: The old "Star Wars" gang is behind this one, of course...
...That way, everyone is a winner...
...But the cleavage between mind and body, intellect and nature, has created a kind of psychic pain at the very root of the modern mind, making it harder for anyone who is suffering from other psychological wounds to be healed...
...But we have models (not "role models," whatever that abomination is...
...I cannot walk away from my past, the friends and comrades I have made, the mistakes I've committed, the hopes we shared...
...and, "God, that guy over there is in his sixties, and I had no idea they were so sexually active...
...Eighty-nine years after man's first flight, four decades after the discovery of the structure of DNA, finally: the latex panty with built-in condom: New developments in condoms include two kinds of loose sheaths or durable poly-urethane plastic that are now being tested...
...Among the secondary characters including Elmo, Herry Monster, Count VonCount, Telemonster, Prairie Dawn and Betty Lou, only a very few are girls...
...This was a women-only event...
...We defined winning as doing your very best...
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...May 31, 1992] The Nation From a Clancy Sigal, more of the therapeutic maunderings that appear with rising frequency in this ancient haunted house: I too am a Marxist...
...April 14, 1992] San Francisco Bay Guardian More on Sen...
...they may even be able to be reused...
...But, just as in the story of the emperor and his new clothes, many of us do not notice the obvious...
...Incidentally, this movie is a last-minute replacement for Superman II, which was banned by the censors...
...It was a very powerful experience...
...If your answer is, "Why, you bet your cowboy boots I would...
...There were three videographers and two still photographers...
...April 11, 1992] New York Times Book Review In his review of Ecocide in the USSR, Prof...
...Further, almost all the baby puppet characters on "Sesame Street" are girls...
...then answer this: Where were you when Jesse Jackson ran for President...
...Gallina has her own thoughts on the popularity of body play...
...and, "God...
...Big Bird and his closest comrade Snuffie...
...It was women doing it for women," she says...
...Fat lot of good it does me...
...This 1987 effort is adapted from the V.C...
...Al Gore's cleavage between mind and body, as fishing turns into a cruel and unusual national pastime: On March 9, a San Francisco woman in her 30s was hung from 28 wire-suspended fishhooks, all pieced through the flesh of her back, legs, and buttocks...
...Al Gore, in an apparent plea for a more widespread acceptance of public drunkenness: Insisting on the supremacy of the neocortex exacts a high price, because the unnatural task of a disembodied mind is to somehow ignore the intense psychic pain that comes from the constant nagging awareness of what is missing: the experience of living in one's body as a fully integrated physical and mental being...
...But revolutionary grief, which is real, absurd and lastingly painful, locks us in a nostalgic dementia that can paralyze our language, tactics and abilities...
...That is to say, American music...
...Life confronts everyone with personal or circumstantial problems, of course, and there are many varieties of psychic pain from which we wish to escape...
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...We have parity: If there's a men's sport, there's a women's sport to complement it...
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...Women would cheer every time a hook went in...
...Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant and Kristy Swanson star...
...Men must pay for being men," the Stanford University–trained psychologist says...
...You don't think that might tick somebody off...
...Also, the female puppet characters almost never interact with each other...
...It was made by piano players in whorehouses...
...Our music...
...That's all there is to it...
...they talked about 10 ground-based missiles, each with 100 megatons of firepower, pointed forever at the heavens, and saying, in effect, "This universe ain't big enough for you and me, Bart...
...Although the impulses for the unlimited and dangerous transformation of the environment were more apparently political (and less economic) in the former Soviet Union than they are here, the bottom line is that both countries seemed to have been headed toward the same destination...
...And we go out and recruit in Third World and minority areas...
...The female puppets always play children, while the male puppets play adult parts in various scenes...
...That's all you've got...
...This was a major, history-making thing...
...That music came out of the ghettos of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg and Harlem...
...May 21, 1992] The Star (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) A morning show television listing in exotic Kuala Lumpur proves that those panicky artistes living in dread of George Herbert Walker Bush's National Endowment for the Arts have little to fear from "the censors": 9:00 Dunhill Double—Flowers in the Attic...
...Blacks are okay—I didn't do anything to offend him, and we became friends...
...November-December 1991] New York Post More sentimental swill from the incogitant mind of Pete Hamill—"our music," indeed: Years before there was a radio station called WNEW-AM, there was the music...
...Not for nothing did Clinton study how to twist and slaughter the Mother Tongue at Oxford...
...from Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity, by Michael A. Messner, Beacon Press, 240 pages, $23] New York Newsday An American progressive takes another leap into the fantastical: Murder, rape, burglary, pollution...
...At a meeting in January in Los Alamos (where else...
...Starting with the fact that most of America's prisoners are men, not women, Stephenson proposes that men pay $100 more in taxes to defray the cost to society of prosecuting and incarcerating their brethren...
...May 18, 1992] Popline (World Population News Service) A dream come true...
...Anything is possible out there, and perhaps the great power, or powers, have just about had it with the Earth, and this could push them over the edge...
...It is part of me the way that Freud is part of me—the way that (I fear) John Wayne's effeminate cowboy stride and Myrna Loy's laugh are part of me...
...As Mike T. said, You don't win by beating someone else...
...All of these people are gonna get together for a week, they're gonna march in together, they're gonna hold hands, and they'll all say "Jesus Christ...
...And we have age-group competition, so all ages are involved...
...June 7, 1992] r MOVING...
...Snuffleupagus are male...
...The puppet stars of the show, Bert and Ernie, and all the other major "Sesame Street" animal characters, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Kermit the Frog, and Mr...
...I mean, what if God is an asteroid...
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...even Oscar the Grouch and his (male) worm, Squirmy...
...laughs...
...There were women who needed to be there...
...Andrews novel which revolves around incest and sado-masochism...
...The Communists just reached it first...
...And use-effectiveness trials are beginning on a women's latex panty with built-in condom...
...There's just your body and you...
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...from Earth in the Balance, by Sen...
...More than 80 spectators and friends were in attendance at the black-walled South of Market space, drumming, chanting, and coaxing her on...
...Of course we mourn for the collective soul of socialism...
...The hardest thing to do is think for ourselves...
...Yes, "Sesame Street" is sexist...
...Unfortunately, this insidious gender bias appears long before our children enter school and pervades even the television show "Sesame Street...
...Men are responsible for most of it, and they ought to start paying for it, says author June Stephenson...
...Two types of female condoms, vaginal sheaths, may soon be on the market...
...Wanting to obliterate the Soviets was bad enough, but starting an arms race with the infinite is asking for one heck of a cosmic rap in the mouth...
...CURRENT WISDOM New York Times Miss Kathleen Quinn resorts to a crafty heuristic device to demonstrate another of those immensities that elevate a dullard like this above the commonplace and into the realm of the living saints: Here's a question for Ross Perot's supporters: If he were black, would you vote for him...
Vol. 25 • August 1992 • No. 8
