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New York Times The venerable Times's proud successor to the likes of Arthur Krock and James Reston, Miss Anna Quindlen, addresses a ptrsonal bull to the president of the United States in the...
...Does the doubling of the knot bind or rebind—ligare or religare...
...That is the American glory and the American horror...
...Desert(s), site or non-site of wandering, erring—Vegas .. . vagus...
...It's not going to be easy," she said...
...The end of aesthetics...
...Sue is very concerned about the pain and fear that she caused to bank employees...
...All of her personal funds, and those taken from the banks, went directly to the casino within hours after the robberies...
...Of Los Angeles: insane circulation without desire...
...Full gender equity in U.S...
...undated] Boston Globe On the correspondence page of the Globe, an excited report on the historic lesbian avengers, who, alas, were still strangely attracted to do their bit at the base of the largest phallic symbol in North America: In fact, Globe coverage minimally touched on the array of weekend-long events, both somber and celebratory, surrounding Sunday's march—dances, religious services, rallies such as the Saturday night Dyke March, the largest women-only march in Washington for lesbian lives...
...education does not yet exist...
...This seems innocuous enough, but it is not by chance that only women can be coeds...
...Times aren't what they were, and after putting the bread, the milk, the chicken and the toilet paper in the cart they know the sad truth: There is no more room, wallet-wise, for the Sara Lee cheesecake, the peaches and the dearer cuts of meat...
...He who has much to do will do something wrong...
...Sue has been evaluated by a noted expert in gambling addiction, Dr...
...Maybe they still wonder what to make of it...
...Edmond Jabes) Frames: Desert, Dessert...
...May 10, 1993] William Mitchell College of Law (St...
...New York Times The venerable Times's proud successor to the likes of Arthur Krock and James Reston, Miss Anna Quindlen, addresses a ptrsonal bull to the president of the United States in the voice of high girlishness that has become her trademark: Go back to February, when you managed with some eloquence to convince [Midwesterners] that they had to join you in busting the deficit and that it would require pain all around...
...May 12, 1993] Washington Post The slop that ensues when the sempiternally fourth-rate confronts a third-rate intellect—reporter Martha Sherrill ensnared by the babble of Hillary: It just happened, slipped out—from deep inside of her—in a quiet but stunning way...
...If conservatives have been making most of the jokes in recent years, that's because it's so much easier for them...
...April 4, 1993] New York A scholarly essay of the utmost importance in New York magazine sadly validates the old saw "The more things change the more they remain the same sex...
...A small step toward changing the attitudes underlying these patterns would be to scuttle "coed," since the nounseems to serve no purpose but to distinguish female from regular (i.e., male) students...
...That she can be the good gay Girl Scout and make the coffee...
...Something like a frame that repeats, while inverting, the hors d'oeuvre...
...But since the Vanderbilt Register has an excellent record when it comes to gender neutral language, I call this particular headline to your attention because I believe you want to avoid such usage...
...The term "coed" assigns to undergraduate women second class citizenship in a coeducational institution because only they are so designated...
...You are not alone in your crusade...
...For almost 20 years, I have engaged in a (so far as I know) one-woman crusade against the noun "coed...
...This demonstration culminated at the Washington Monument, where activists from the group Lesbian Avengers ate fire amid thousands of women who chanted, "The fire will not consume us...
...Sue Robinson has never been arrested for so much as a traffic violation before her arrest on these charges...
...But there in Texas, she finally revealed the biggest piece of herself yet, just said it: In the midst of redesigning America's health care system and replacing Madonna as our leading cult figure, the new First Lady has already begun working on her next project, far more metaphysical and uplifting...
...Jean Baudrillard) I have come from the desert as one comes from beyond memory...
...Gay men have always treated gay women the same way straight men have treated straight women...
...Neither dinner nor not dinner, but a supplement...
...I offer the following quote by Samuel Johnson as an excuse, albeit a weak one...
...People wondered what to make of this at first...
...The usual dictionary definition of a coed is "a female student at a coeducational institution...
...But as Wolcott surely knows, American liberals have committed themselves to abandoning the narcissism of the tribe...
...Either Mark C. Taylor is essaying postmodernism, or he has just spilled a bowl of alphabet soup on his manuscript: Why is LA., why are the deserts so fascinating...
...Sincerely yours, —Nancy A. Ransom Director Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center [April 26-May 2, 1993...
...To the barricades...
...It is because you are delivered from all depth there—a brilliant, mobile superficial neutrality, a challenge to meaning and profundity, a challenge to nature and culture, an outer hyperspace, with no origin, no reference points...
...Lynn Rambeck...
...The steaks, the veal and the pork...
...Paul, Minnesota) A memo from law professor Peter Erlinder on behalf of Susan Robinson, a likely choice to be Bill Clinton's second attorney general: On April 30, 1993, our former colleague, Susan Robinson, will be sentenced in federal court in Madison, Wisconsin on her plea of guilty to six counts of bank robbery...
...She used "Pepperguard," a natural product, to prevent others from following her...
...There was always this feeling we let the gay men speak for us and then we do the work...
...The nineties have brought a new strength within the lesbian community to stand up and say, 'Well, no, these are my needs.' " [May 10, 1993] New Republic The Rev...
...Many [sic] have never been referred to as "coeds...
...they are committed to respecting every group in the country...
...from "Reframing Postmodernisms," by Mark C. Taylor, in Shadow of Spirit: Postmodernism and Religion, edited by Philippa Berry and Andrew Wernick, Routledge, 274 pages, $54.95] New York Times Magazine Prose of dubious quality and thoughts of time-honored stupidity from Richard Ford, "the novelist": Some part of us knows the Republicans are secretly to blame...
...two spellings, one pronunciation...
...What took so long...
...May 6, 1993] The Great Books Series The beginnings of the kind of literary dispute sure to absorb academic minds from Berkeley, California, to Ithaca, New York...
...One of the saddest realizations of my life is that a woman can be a lesbian and not be a feminist...
...It was April and her father was dying in the hospital and Hillary Rodham Clinton was standing at a lectern in Austin: "We need a new politics of meaning," she said...
...For the liberal, everyone matters...
...Sincerely, —Karen E. Campbell Associate Professor of Sociology Acting Director of Women's Studies Read on Professor Campbell...
...No longer before but after the repas., Le repas: what is a pas that is a re-pas...
...She used no weapons in the robberies, but she did have a toy gun that fell out of her pocket during one robbery...
...Desert...
...They knew what that was like because they've done deficit-busting themselves...
...One word that is at least two—one spelling, two pronunciations...
...I am familiar with some of the difficulties in writing headlines and suspect that the term was used because it fit the space...
...In other words, get your own demagogues, bullies and wits...
...Dear Editor, I was dismayed to read in this week's Register the headline "Coeds eager to begin yearlong fellowship at Lloyd's of London...
...It's simple, lesbians say...
...She is the last person one would expect to be involved in anything illegal...
...Because the word refers only to female students, "coed" implicitly conveys the notion that women are out of place in education, that they are of secondary importance, that they are interlopers in a male preserve...
...One of the biggest changes in the lesbian community is the political influence it is wielding within the larger gay world...
...And when what was actual, money, of course, did not trickle our way finally but the other way, we were left even hungrier, and also cynical and puritanical about the malleable character of truth—suspicious, to say the least, about the solid foundations of most everything...
...Sue needs the help of the entire William Mitchell Community to help the judge understand that this is one of those situations in which the Guidelines simply do not apply...
...we'll use it to better our lives...
...To the Editor: An article in the April 22 Register appeared under the headline "Coeds eager to begin yearlong fellowship at Lloyd's of London...
...Delivery from all depth . . . lights, pure light, absence of shadow...
...She kept none for herself...
...Desert .. . Des(s)ert . . . Des(s)erts...
...Twenty years of waiting for our interests to somehow become "linked" with rich people's, and for goodness to trickle down on us from above like gilded snowflakes at the end of a long, dry winter, caused all of us to hunger for something actual in even the least of our institutions, baseball included...
...What...
...David Denby explicates the humorless condition of his fellow "liberals" with, dare we say it, another of the liberals' plenteous whines: Hughes fears no man or woman, but most liberals shrink from hurting anyone's feelings...
...It's not going to be easy," she said, "redefining who we are as human beings in this postmodern age...
...Postmodernism' is, of course, a notoriously problematic term...
...April 29, 1993] Vanderbilt Register Two former coeds give the erudite editor of an esteemed university publication a condign dose of re-education, demonstrating anew that college life is grim business in pursuit of the trivial: Use of coed in headline draws flak Editor's note: I blundered...
...for example, classroom research consistently shows that female students are called on less often, receive less encouragement, and are more apt to be interrupted than are their male counterparts...
...Des(s)ert...
...She was concerned that chemical "Mace" was too strong and might harm someone...
...Or delivery to a certain re-pas that is beyond . . . le pas au-dela, where the absence of shadow is the shadow of spirit...
...That is why James Wolcott was being disingenuous when, in the course of defending Rush Limbaugh recently in the New Yorker, he called on liberals to stop whining and "lean into the microphone...
...What is des(s)erted in the desert...
...Lesbians have always been in the gay movement," says Rita Mae Brown, "and we have always been ignored...
...this headline gives me another opportunity to object...
...The fascination of the desert: immobility without desire...
...After dinner desserts—just or otherwise...
Vol. 26 • July 1993 • No. 7
