Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" George Prof. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. sits down with Hillary Milhous Nixon and walks away, his mind abundant with actresses. Very understandable, Arthur, but "unfathomable...
...Ann Messner, Daniel Oates, Matthew McLaslin and Rirkrit Tiranvanija are a few of the visiting artists who are helping to define individual art practices...
...I really don't know why that fish did that...
...Clinton alone is President, not his wife...
...Rose Mary Meyer The Women's Office Sisters o f Charity, B. V M. Chicago, Ill...
...AUGUST 11, 19961 The American Spectator . October r 9 9 6 85...
...But do you ever kiss a fish and then, you know, kill it, fry it up and eat it...
...AUGUST 25, 1996] The Charlie Rose Show Charlie Rose interviews vampire novelist Anne Rice on PBS, the TV network for intellectuals, and evokes genius: ROSE: No...
...RICE: I did, indeed...
...That evening I found myself seated next to her...
...And so I just want to say right now, please, Mr...
...I heard this Marxist economist say that America has become a gambling society...
...I don't mind when the more liberal and moderate Republican women talk about smaller government or money issues and things of that nature...
...16) reveal an insensitivity to women and an appalling disregard for journalistic excellence...
...And so the truth about Dole's war record is considerably less than awe-inspiring...
...it is basic courtesy to use inclusive language in public discourse...
...They're never going to lay back, Mack...
...C U R R E N T W I S D O M George Prof...
...RICE: There has been global-you know, war everywhere...
...And yet she is, like Hepburn and Bacall, intensely feminine...
...But Mrs...
...RICE: -the first time in 15 years and I think he's ROSE: In- inRICE: -terrific andROSE: In'92...
...AUGUST 12h9,1996] New York Observer Midst a symposium on the "Great Stock Scare of '96" titled "What the Hell Happened," Sparrow, New York's greatest downtown poet since Harry Kemp, makes his bid to replace Dr...
...It'sRalph Reed's troops that make me uneasy.[JULY 28,1996] The Nation The Higher Journalism as practiced by the celebrated Robert B. Ellis, retired Central Intelligence officer and Bronze Star winner (World War II): Dole was promoted to first lieutenant in April 1946 and to captain in February 1947 even though he had been undergoing operations and rehabilitation in hospitals for the past two years...
...16) and "our brothers' keepers" (p...
...I supposed that she was articulate and cerebral, but earnest and humorless-a real bluestocking...
...It didn't seem real...
...I don't get it at all...
...I mean, has so much ever happened to one president...
...That blows my mind...
...I believe him because heseems to be a reasonable and sincere man -but also because he has proved himself aleader too astute to pursue extremist goals,even in secret, in non-radical America...
...That's right...
...Then the connections you make with your readers will be life-affirming instead of death-dealing...
...SEPTEMBER 1996] New York Times Book Review Alas, Dr...
...from Between Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century, by Bill Clinton...
...Times Books, $16.95-price negotiable] America In the correspondence page of some sort of superpatriot's magazine, a Miss Rose Mary Meyer offers encouragement for all Americans of robust good humor to resort ceaselessly to sexist language and perhaps even to whistling at pretty women in public: I am writing in response to the article "The Intersalt Study Reveals Some Unexpected Connections" (5/4...
...The cube's boundaries are being broken apart even further by the newly acquired video projector, allowing a multitude of projection sizes, surfaces, and most importantly the ability for video to encompass or interact with a three dimensional space...
...RICE: But, I mean, nobody knows the answer, Charlie...
...I was quite wrong, Jackie said: Hillary was full of fun, and I would like her...
...Don't you mean unfathomable deceits...
...Go for a flat tax and go for a flat minimum income so that people can collect their Welfare and work because Americans are going to work no matter what you have to do-you know, no matter what you do to them, they're going to work, in addition to Welfare, disability, or anything...
...These are like their poems about their state of mind, stream-of-consciousness financial minds...
...No wonder the weaker among them feel threatened by her...
...Laura D'Andrea Tyson as our President's chief economic adviser and spellbinder: People are so horrified that the stock market should go down, as if it's the law of God it should go up...
...But when I see a conservative Republican woman in line with the Christian right or coming out against abortion and day-care issues, I see a self-hating, unenlightened woman, like a self-hating Jew...
...Yet the myth endures, and with the candidate running on the contrast between his and Clinton's military record, his campaign isn't eager to give a more accurate account...
...I happened to have lunch with Jacqueline Onassis in New York and mentioned that I was bound that afternoon for dinner at the White House...
...A: Just recently I had a little accident kissing a walleye...
...It is shameful that a magazine as prominent as AMERICA is using sexist language...
...RICE: -I think-I think he's had one of the most astonishing administrations I've ever seen...
...I guess they're like poets, but they can only write in numbers...
...Busy hands are rolling these materials into a visual vocabulary which speaks of issues such as gender positions, cultural sarcasm, the body, and the beautiful...
...Clinton's lower public profile since the failure of the health care overhaul has made voters realize that Mr...
...Clinton...
...In that case, I probably shouldn't have tried the French-kiss deal...
...Tom Wicker, exemplary progressive, trapped in the paranoid style the late Richard Hofstadter warned him against: I believe him when he denies these and otherominous aims...
...I mean, foreign politics has been beyond belief...
...If you was to kiss a fish, put it in the live well and take it home and eat itwell, that would be like cheating on your wife...
...MAY 25,1996] outline (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) In the fabulous alumni newsletter mailed to all alumni of the Cranbrook Academy of Art of fixed address, the access to which remains unimpeded by SWAT teams, correspondent Paul Castaldo (Sculpture,'96) relates the elements and neuroses that have contributed to the veritable renaissance now afflicting progressive Bloomfield Hills: The genius of the 95/96 Sculpture department brings forth crickets, guinea pigs, cow guts, cake icing, Jello, potatoes, asphalt, honey dipped babies, liquid nitrogen, and a giant tampon box to the apex of the amalgamated mountain of material possibilities...
...Have you ever suffered a memorable love bite...
...RICE: I registered forROSE: And you liked him...
...They respond financially...
...ROSE: Okay...
...ROSE: Yeah...
...She is, of course a cool number, more disciplined and reflective than her husband, a woman of unfathomable depths...
...He has passed up several opportunities to correct the exaggerated versions in biographies...
...I hope that future issues of AMERICA will use inclusive language and lead the way in demonstrating respect for all people, women and men alike...
...JULY 29,1996] New York Times Euphemism as we've never heard it before: Mrs...
...AUGUST 5,1996] 84 October 19 9 6 • The American Spectator New York Times Magazine Jimmy Houston, the Molly Ivins-type outdoors commentator on the ESPN show, "Jimmy Houston Outdoors," tells all: Q: You strongly believe that fishermen should practice catch-and-release, and your trademark gesture is to kiss every fish that you let go...
...Q: Fish have teeth...
...I had known the President, but had never met Mrs...
...Nobody knows the tax law...
...Hilton says that Dole referred to the second of these advancements as a "bedpan promotion...
...I remember my first meeting with her...
...I mean, the country has had Biblical weather...
...I think it mostly reflects the whimsical minds of stockbrokers...
...Clinton, go for a flat tax...
...A: I do eat fish, but I don't kiss any of the ones I keep...
...MEG RYAN, who plays a tough-as-nails pilot killed in Gulf War action in "Courage Under Fire," quoted in the New York Daily News: "I watched the Gulf War on TV like everybody else, and it seemed sort of like a Nintendo game...
...The references to "no man is an island" (p...
...When I was on the battlefield in the movie, I suddenly realized the enormity of people dying-the senselessness of killing each other...
...Amy O'Neill physically shoved a full-size wrecked car into the sculpture courtyard, combining the physical material possibilities of the car with computer generated postcards...
...This article revealed an unexpected connection, it is true, namely that your magazine is still firmly mired in sexist language and thinking...
...ROSE: All right, but let me ask you-you obviously voted for President Clinton, I assume...
...At the same time, voters see in the Clintons' confessed marital complexities echoes of their own...
...Clinton was delightful, elegant, amused, amusing, easy to talk to and engagingly wry in her outlook on the world...
...Mark Rowland sweetens and brings life to minimalism by encasing work boots in a cube of jello...
...Dole, at the behest of his handlers, is less reticent about his service than in the past, but he mainly speaks about his wound and rehabilitation...
...She is Katharine Hepburn and Lauren Bacall, crisp and masterful, determined to beat men at their own game-and quite capable of doing so...
...Clinton, clear-eyed and purposeful, strides confidently and as an equal into the world of men...
...A walleye's got a lot of teeth, and this one bit my upper lip pretty severely and my lower lip fairly severelyenough to bring up a pretty good bunch of blood...
...Jackie was right...
...Sexism in any form is sinful and does violence to the human family, and must be named as such wherever it is found...
...Very understandable, Arthur, but "unfathomable depths...
...Personal, public, and cultural boundaries are being questioned in lively visual and verbal languages which this year's sculpture department takes on fervently...
...JULY 28, 19961 The Great Books Series Our Exemplary President again trapped in an autistic episode before his word processor, late at night, while Hillary mends Chelsea's socks in the other room, and the rest of the White House staff is attending chapel in the recently converted Oval Office: We cannot end the related cycles of welfare dependency and teen pregnancy unless we confront the issue of responsibility-the responsibility of young women not to get pregnant, the responsibility of men not to get them pregnant, the responsibility of fathers to support their children, the responsibility of parents to provide their children a safe home and teach them responsible sexual behavior and encourage abstinence, the responsibility of churches to support those teachings, the responsibility of community organizations to develop programs to help teen mothers and their children get a start in life, and the responsibility of public officials to understand that teen pregnancy is part of a complex web of social issues...
...SPRING 1996] Detroit Free Press Two demented passages parading as memorable quotes in "Bob Talbert's Quote Bag": JANEANE GAROFALO, actresslcomedian in Playboy's "2o Questions" on women who degrade themselves: "When Pat Buchanan came out against the Beijing Women's Conference and there were women standing next to him, smiling and laughing when he was making fun of it, I was so embarrassed...
...They're willing to accept that all the companies are arbitrary and vicious in the hopes that they'll pick the right vicious company...
Vol. 29 • October 1996 • No. 10
