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MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour Charlayne Hunter-Gault, journalist and linguist, whilst interviewing the African-American-Black-Negro artist, Jacob Lawrence, delivers to a grateful Nation her latest...
...Where do we think the kids get their incentive...
...First, he'd like you to know that Indian activist Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1976, is innocent...
...February 20, 1995] The Atlantic In the pages of a usually readable monthly, Richard Taruskin explicates the Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich, and in paraverbal prose reminding us once again that when it comes to art and artiness, the philistines have a point: On February 24, 1975, less than half a year before his death, having listened to a symphony by his former pupil Boris Tishchenko and said little, Shostakovich offered a sort of apology that might be taken as his Aesopian credo...
...As I leave public life, I will continue to be a voice for the poor and the powerless and to do my best to see that the goals of this Administration are reached to make the world a better place for all God's children...
...The conversation: lively and spirited...
...Either I like it or I don't...
...Impressed, we could only stroke the striped serge, still boxed...
...It came by mail...
...November 29, 1994] The American Spectator April 1995 77...
...And my question is, why didn't you and the Post give more credence to these same stories when The American Spectator broke those things about a year ago...
...On behalf of the Vice President, I also want to thank you for your continued support and for your participation in our democratic system...
...and said she was "sorry...
...He'd like you to know that the American Declaration of Independence was written by white male land-owners, "because they were the only ones who could vote...
...According to the latest edition of Who's Who, the man who wrote Me and Bobby McGee and gave it to his then-lover Janis Joplin to record, will turn 59 this June 22...
...Very pretty...
...The current Republican attitude toward social programs is similar to Hitler's "final solution...
...DAVID MARANISS: Yeah...
...He'd like you to know that the FBI and the CIA "killed them all"—meaning every political activist working for positive change in the '60s and '70s—to establish a strangle-hold on the American political system, with their victims including the Kennedys and Martin Luther King...
...How do I know...
...I have neither the wish nor the ability to analyze or discuss the pieces I hear...
...I think it is in large measure our failure to explain to people what was at stake in simple terms...
...December 20, 1994] 76 The American Spectator April 1995 Dissent For all readers who knew there was something very wrong with Boy Clinton's military adventure in Haiti, Dissent, the journal of genteel communism, provides PROOF: The occupation of Haiti [is] the first progressive American military intervention since World War II [Winter 1995] Vancouver Sun Another moronic lamentation from actor and balladeer Kris Kristofferson, who, we are told, "beat alcoholism in 1976," leaving him with one less excuse: It's hard to believe the sex symbol for an entire generation—and then some—is pushing 60...
...And her hairdo of choice Monday was very North Shore...
...The pants and coat engulfed him like a child...
...I just listen to the music people give me to listen to...
...of government...
...That's all...
...The address is: publications@ whitehouse.gov To receive instructions for obtaining documents, please send a request to the above address...
...Please try to write short and concise messages, address only one issue per message, and send only one copy of your message...
...But Kristofferson seems to just get better with age...
...We have now elevated a character assassin to third highest post in this country ("Newt's mom tells remark on first lady," Austin American-Statesman, Jan...
...The instructions will be sent to you automatically...
...January 10, 1995] New York Times More hollow sermonics from columnist and rastaquouere, Frank Rich—the girls' favorite: If you doubt that powerful women still drive American men crazy, try to find any men at Hollywood's new hit adaptation' of "Little Women...
...Yet unlikethe socialist-realist critics who tried to catalogue and thus circumscribe his "imagery" and "intonations," and unlike the more recent biographical paraphrasts (including the one who scandalously appropriates his name), Shostakovich insisted on keeping the latent content latent—and keeping it labile...
...The Post did look into [it] immediately when those stories came out, and we wrote several stories about it...
...In the body of the message, type "Send Info" (without quotes...
...LARRY KING: Mr...
...sometimes one person with courage can make a majority...
...LARRY KING: So you say you covered what The American Spectator covered...
...Hillary on health care: "I regret very much that the efforts on health-care reform were badly misunderstood and taken out of context . . . and then used politically against the administration and the Democrats...
...We are pleased to announce the Internet address for obtaining White House documents and publications...
...The more I learn, the more I feel the obligation to do more...
...Well, that's not quite all...
...I haven't had a significant role in a motion picture since Heaven's Gate," he says...
...January 14, 1995] New York Times The more intelligible passages of the Hon...
...I lunched with the first lady on Monday as one of I I journalists/columnists from across the country invited to the Yellow Room of the White House...
...Unfortunately, the very large volume of mail received by the Vice President from citizens around the nation prevents him from sending a more detailed and direct response at this time...
...He'd also like you to know that he has no illusions about what his outspoken beliefs may have cost him...
...January 7, 1995] Larry King Live The inquisitional Larry King strikes, and Washington Post reporter and Clinton biographer David Maraniss rewrites history, oh, yeah...
...He was measured with flourishes...
...This Administration is committed to integrating this new medium into the White House, and we hope to begin responding electronically to your messages in the near future...
...If a woman is going to be strong, she had better be the sexual predator of undying male fantasies, like Demi Moore in "Disclosure," rather than the intellectually strong Jo March, who has the temerity to reject the hunk next door...
...My father felt the time had come to buy a proper suit of clothes...
...Joycelyn Elders' valedictory statement, made just before she returned to the University of Arkansas where she has vowed to "do something" about the sad fact that eighth-grade students of Arkansas are only masturbating at a fourth-grade level: Fewer and fewer teen-agers abstain from sexual intercourse, while more and more politicians abstain from the debate about comprehensive health education...
...I am generally closemouthed...
...February 9, 1995] The Great Books Series A poem by the inimitable Jimmy Carter—this being one of Jimmy's more lascivious efforts: Prosperity Doesn't Suit Everyone One year when our cotton crop was good and watermelons hit the market high a circuit-riding tailor came to town...
...DAVID MARANISS: That's a question that's been raised since the excerpts came out...
...Change demands active involvement...
...Thank you for taking the time to message the Vice President and for your patience as we fine-tune the response system...
...February 1995] White House Internet A historic document from the Office of the Vice President Albert Go#@net*&@#re, husband of Tipper Go#@net*&@#re, to be read with the utmost care, copied, and sent to five of your best friends, who are to do likewise for the sake of the Internet: Thank you for writing to the Vice President via Internet...
...The surprise: Hillary is pretty...
...4, page A7...
...MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour Charlayne Hunter-Gault, journalist and linguist, whilst interviewing the African-American-Black-Negro artist, Jacob Lawrence, delivers to a grateful Nation her latest coinage, and neither MacNeil nor Lehrer laughed or threw up or launched spit balls her way: It was during this time that Lawrence began spending long hours in places like Harlem's Schomburg Library, diligently researching the epic struggles of the heroes and sheroes of the black community...
...He wouldn't talk or go to church that day, and no one in our family blinked or smiled...
...By following these instructions, you should be able to search for and receive documents within a matter of minutes...
...Please be assured, however, that your correspondence has been read carefully, and a detailed report of the mail is provided to the Vice President on a regular basis...
...from Always a Reckoning and Other Poems, by Jimmy Carter, Times Books, 130 pages, $18] Chicago Sun-Times Someone by the name of Michael Sneed returns from an obviously drunken luncheon at the White House with the fubsy Hillary and taps out the following immensities: Over a plate of heart-healthy American cuisine, Hillary Rodham Clinton took full responsibility for the failure of the healthcare program she helped design...
...There is simply too much in Shostakovich's instrumental music that is strongly marked—too much that resonates, like Beethoven's or Tchaikovsky's music, with characteristic and functional genres, with the conventional iconicity of emotion, with intertextual allusion, with sheer violence—for us to doubt that at bottom he shared his society's faith in the reality of the latent content...
...I take responsibility for that and am very sorry about that...
...And fewer than half of sexually active teenagers used a condom in their last sexual encounter...
...Since there has been a steady increase in mail to the Vice President, your help will be needed to ensure that we can read and record your message clearly...
...There is more here than the doer's quarrel with the talker, more than the artist's familiar insistence on sensory immediacy and pleasure over secondary, rationalized response—though in this overanalytical age of ours that's a hint we might do well to consider at times...
...And what truths would Kris Kristofferson want you to know...
...I think it's largely a bogus question...
...If you know the truth, or a truth and you don't speak it, then you are a part of the lie," he says, blue eyes atwinkle behind his slightly tinted lenses...
...Martin Luther King, Jr., "is the day we begin to die...
...The day we see the truth and cease to speak," said the Rev...
...no other text is necessary...
...But when Sunday came at last so did our kin, to see the grand display...
...February 1, 1995] San Antonio Express-News Deductive logic as practiced by Sandra on the correspondence page of a great Texas daily: If Democrats reflect Marxism, then Republicans reflect the fascist attitudes of Adolf Hitler...
...Maraniss, you say in your book that there may be some truth to the allegations that the Arkansas state troopers procured women for Governor Clinton...
...The audiences are large, but according to the president of CinemaScore, a national survey outfit, "Males are not showing up to this movie...
...January 15, 1995] Austin American-Statesman How kids learn to kill as analyzed by Miss Judith Woodard, a faithful correspondent to her hometown paper when not engaged in the activities of her local Vegetables for Peace Campaign: Are we still wondering why kids drive around town shooting strangers in their homes...
...Your message will be brought to his attention as a part of that report...
...About 40 percent of pregnant minority women do not receive any prenatal care in their first trimester...
Vol. 28 • April 1995 • No. 4
