Current Wisdom
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CURRENT WISDOM Orange County Register A perfect ass explicates the politically correct description of a perfect ass in repose: While I found the content of the article "Tackling hurt head-on"...
...I have to wonder how House and Senate races would have turned out if the truth had been known before the election...
...the excellence Cubans exhibit in so many areas, including medicine, education, and sports...
...My head was drooping with tiredness and he was going strong...
...Tyrrell did with their time before Bill Clinton came along...
...When it comes to the current campaign finance problems of the Democrats, I have no doubt Mr...
...and now he was going to settle for me...
...Tyrrell is more than willing not only to jump on the bandwagon, but eventually to take credit for breaking the story, as he has done with other alleged scandals...
...from Coming Apart, by Roger Rosenblatt, Little Brown, 234 pages, $24.95] Las Vegas Review-Journal Another unsolicited testimonial: I was shocked, simply shocked to discover while reading the March 16 Review-Journal that Emmett Tyrrell, the noted editor-inchief of that rag that fronts for a legitimate magazine, The American Spectator, has again decided to enlighten us on the many scandals of the current administration...
...My first year as Senior Tutor was Al Gore's junior year...
...Clowns have been around since Egyptian times and have brought laughter and wisdom to many through the millennia...
...developing brief but meaningful relationships by reaching out with a smile, some silliness, a silent touch, a hug...
...It is only in modern times that they have been widely welcomed as active participants in Christian ministry...
...he had tried to seduce Andy...
...Perhaps using the simple phrase "sitting cross legged" would be adequate...
...Many people, especially here in the Midwest, voted straight Republican, as the Christian Coalition told them to do...
...Tyrrell has accused President Clinton of conspiracy to commit murder, drug running, treason, tax fraud and nearly every other crime imaginable, all without one shred of evidence...
...Nor do I wish to imitate Frida Kahlo, one of whose last paintings was of "Uncle" Joe Stalin, whose attempts to improve the lives of Russians she respected and about whose gulags and genocidal policies she knew nothing...
...Christian clowns are "vulnerable lovers" who take the risk of being rejected or ridiculed...
...We passed each other quickly on the path...
...Clown ministers love unconditionally...
...Over the past five years, Mr...
...Come and join us...
...That is the wisdom of the poorly adjusted...
...Personally, I feel that the regular church-attending Clinton, who has stayed with his wife and takes an active part in raising their child, deserved the Christian Coalition's support far more than Dole did...
...Before this president was elected, The American Spectator had a subscription list of about nine...
...Allen was sitting beside me and when I looked down I saw his hand resting there...
...bringing out the laughter of others through play and spontaneity...
...There are verities that are available to the lost and the losers...
...Or if they are worse than Clinton's, Kennedy's, Gingrich's, or Dole's...
...Servanthood, the giving of self, means sharing moments with people who are lonely or in pain...
...One night, sometime after midnight, I was returning to Dunster House, and emerging from the House at the same time were Al and his girlfriend, Tipper...
...As an outsider I have nothing to go on but the universal evidence of healthy bodies, sound teeth, and self-possessed spirits so lacking in many other third-world countries...
...The answer, of course, is: Who cared...
...And it has to be a man...
...For years the United States media have been pulling out bones that almost never, once you actually go to Cuba and talk to Cubans, connect, except grotesquely, to the reality of life there and the dreams and aspirations of the people...
...Who will deny it...
...I greeted Al and Tipper: "Good evening, boys...
...Christian clowns act out Christ's teachings in gospel clowning...
...He squeezed...
...It's what everyone is talking about off line...
...What exactly does "sat Indian style" mean...
...He breathed life and yearning into all he touched...
...poem titles such as "January Ovaries," "Song of Estrogen" and "Yeast" almost beg parody...
...The editorial creation of journalist Michael Kinsley, Slate is media, politics, technology, high and low culture...all with a certain insouciant smirk that thinking people find compelling...
...How dare a magazine like Time put Dick Morris (who wasn't even a candidate) on its cover yet not say a word about Dole's confirmed extramarital affair...
...Stale), intended to attract readers to that "on-line magazine," not rude snickers and guffaws: Slate online magazine...
...And then I thought that this man was zo years older than I was, he had been drinking and doping and laughing and shouting and making great ribald sense all night through...
...Tyrrell and his ilk make their livings printing every vile and malicious rumor they can get their sleazy little hands on about people who dare to disagree with them politically, all the while pretending they are doing some great public service...
...The man was running for president of the United States on the character issue...
...APRIL 20, 1997] New Republic In San Diego thirty-nine Clinton supporters take the hemlock and fly off to that mysterious spaceship parked just behind the Hale-Bopp comet, and Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor of the venerable New Republic, discovers a literary jewel in their gibbering—these Clintonites stick together, and are they ever intellectual: Indeed, the cyber-nonsense that they posted on the Web was punctuated by sentences of a peculiar beauty, such as this one: "Humans with deposits containing souls can likely be identified at this time as some of those who are rapidly losing respect for this world or its system...
...CURRENT WISDOM Orange County Register A perfect ass explicates the politically correct description of a perfect ass in repose: While I found the content of the article "Tackling hurt head-on" [News, Feb...
...Mike Weiss, the Jimmy Breslin-like dope fetcher at SJMN, reconvenes a thrilling night in poetic San Francisco: Awhile later, with the sky outside the plate glass window turning murky with light, I felt somebody touch my thigh...
...There is no way of knowing yet what skeletons, if any, are gleaming in Fidel's closet...
...With her references to tattooed scalps, yeast infections, liposuction and so on, these are intensely embodied and gendered poems...
...Are Native Americans the only people who sit with their legs crossed...
...We plan to have fun...
...Parietals—a word that was invented at Harvard, I think—referred to the rule that a young woman was not allowed in a young man's House room after 11 P.M...
...Ordained priests who are clowns celebrate the Eucharist through the quiet eloquence of mime...
...Clown ministry has several themes...
...Their skits and antics are designed to make others feel good about themselves...
...MARK KASE Logandale [MARCH 24, 1997] The American Spectator • June 1997 85...
...Everyone who owns a gun and defends general gun ownership is, I believe, a contributor to gun violence and should be held partially responsible...
...I think the woman at Fidel's side should be his copresident, not his interpreter...
...APRIL 21, 1997] Monterey County Herald Carmel's Anne Bourne comes up with another California solution: We could abolish gun violence very easily, simply by making all gun ownership a crime until such violence is reduced to zero...
...I would think that the educated and learned reporters of the Orange County Register could come up with a more descriptive and appropriate way of describing how a person was sifting...
...Hahn explores several psychic positions: She is the guilty, the accused, the needy, the harasser, the abandoned, the revenger, the dreamer...
...I always get the distinct impression...that, had he been around during the Nixon administration, his readers would have been enlightened not with stories on the crimes of Watergate, but with a weekly dose of the sex lives of Woodward and Bernstein...
...There was but one path connecting us and no escape for the future vice president...
...APRIL 1997]New Republic Amazing but true...
...I certainly think so...
...MAY 5, 1997] San Jose Mercury News Just hours after Allen Ginsberg assumed room temperature in a Manhattan water bed, a lugubrious Mr...
...How does it happen that a whole race of people have the honor of having a way of sitting named after them...
...Relevant...
...I saw the terror in his Boy Scout eyes, which might have read: "There goes the presidency...
...17] quite sensitive and compassionate, it contained a phrase that I feel is insensitive and offensive...
...The ironic thing is that as a clown, behind make-up, costume, mime and antics, a person can do things and act in ways that he/she would not be able to do in "real" life...
...An advertisement for Michael Kinsley's Slate magazine (a.k.a...
...APRIL 1997]Episcopal Life/The Pennsylvania Episcopalian Christianity without tears, as propounded by one Dale Cleary, as yet unindicted or detoxed: Why do we use clowns at a church convention...
...CHERYL ESTES Rancho Santa Margarita [FEBRUARY 24, 1997] George Why Dole lost: Thank you for "Too Hot to Handle," the story of Bob Dole's mistress and the refusal of influential news publications to print it...
...Once gun crime has stopped (yes, I believe it's possible to actually stop anything we really want to stop), those who have gun permits for hunting and have never committed a crime could once more own a gun, but if any crime occurs, once more all guns would be confiscated...
...Hahn runs a grave risk...
...APRIL 18, 1997] The Great Books Series In a new edition of TV prose for sophisticates, a memorable recollection of wit and libido amongst the Giants: As late as 1969, as well, "parietals" were in force...
...It taught me something about the vast energy that underlies the creative urge in a genius like Allen Ginsberg, the limitless appetites, the contempt for the barriers that keep the rest of us penned in...
...Tyrrell's predicting future scandals in the Clinton administration is a little like the Review-Journal editorial board's commentary on the latest Clinton "big government" proposal: predictable but based on very little reality...
...This week thinking about Allen Ginsberg an old idea made sense anew: The world is a smaller place when a great man dies...
...For a clown, for example, tripping and falling is not an embarrassment but a source of entertainment...
...from Anything We Can Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism, by Alice Walker, Random House, 225 pages, $23] Chicago Tribune Books Maureen McLane, of the Chicago Humanities Institute, rediscovers the key ingredients of modern poetry: The book implicitly traces a story unfolding over the seasons, the story of an obsessive, transgressive and ultimately disappointed love affair that may in fact not have happened at all...
...Ecumenical clown troupes visit hospitals, nursing homes and churches to do simple skits illustrating fundamental lessons of love, forgiveness and giving to others...
...I often wonder what alleged journalists like Mr...
...That phrase is "sat Indian style...
...Even the Cuban boat people, escaping from the devastation and hunger of their island, were remarkable for their fitness, their ingenuity in constructing their boats, and often for their ability to speak more than one language...
...Some people feel that they would be too self-conscious to be a clown...
...APRIL 13, 1997] 84 June 1997 • The American Spectator The Great Books Series Credo of a boob: I do not believe in male-only leadership anywhere in the world, including Cuba...
...Now, Mr...
...It is a wonderfully freeing role in which adults and adolescents can put aside the need to be "cool" or sophisticated and go back to being playful and spontaneous...
...his lover was here...
...I thought: One of the great poets of the century is making a pass at me...
Vol. 30 • June 1997 • No. 6
