The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS Brighter shades of pale; throw-weights; Mobutu to you May Was way cool, depriving the northern reaches of any semblance of spring while giving Washington a deluxe taste of...
...His name is James Wood, best known to American readers for words he spills in the New Republic...
...Socialists, Communists, and UltraNationalists scored big in French elections, which, considering the populace in question, meant everybody won...
...Antoine Can of the NBA's aptly named Utah Jazz never once took off his shades, whether on the court or bench, in the showers or during interviews with NBC Sports...
...we generally apply the term to the House of Representatives...
...has been settled forever, at least in Kabul, Afghanistan...
...Was this what political operatives these days would call a throwaway line...
...Some women still don't get it...
...That same issue contains a memorable essay from First Nanny Hillary Rodham ClinA bad case of playoff fever Spanni Glo ng the be 8 July 1997 • The American Spectator ton, who too may find herself subject to recall...
...Even though her husband's White House days have yet to run their course, the Times-Mirror company has honored longtime L.A...
...One-time Che Guevara sidekick Laurent Kabila took supreme power in Zaire, now renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo, leaving the ousted shah Joseph Mobutu with no place to go except Disneyland or the nearest graveyard...
...We have Roger Clinton, who saves on rent by living at i600 Pennsylvania Avenue and pays the difference in monthly support checks to Ms...
...Mary Albert, the leading yesss-man of basketball announcers, was allowed to keep his rug on during a publicity mug shoot at the Arlington (Va...
...The ruling Taliban fundamentalists fear that paper bags may be made of recycled copies of the Koran...
...Someday this magazine will honor Mr...
...Murray Kemp-ton merits a Special Distinction Award, though not because he was the last practicing Episcopalian in American journalism, but merely because he passed away on May 5. Ms...
...That's a mighty enlarged ticker: in the U.S...
...The dolphin/actor Bebe, 40, died in his tub in Miami, Florida...
...True sportsmen like it hot, of course...
...The late Pamela Harriman, who probably wishes she'd been at that party with Gilbert Davis, found new ways to attract large sums...
...On May 1 the United Kingdom was sentenced to many years of hard Labour, and Mr...
...Clinton's private attorney David Kendall, who, it's been learned, moonlights as the National Enquirer's lead lawyer...
...Otherwise, the job will go to Mr...
...Or 9-zipper, as one disrespectful wag put it...
...No one appeared to recall that in his 1996 State of the Union address Mr...
...His very heart is a democratic chamber...
...Times Washington bureau chief Jack Nelson with a Lifetime Achievement Award...
...He's 70, she's 36...
...He'd gone to Paris to bring to fruition Alger Hiss's vision of giving Moscow last call on such matters as NATO...
...It was so cool, Mr...
...The English have a term for it: gender identity disorder...
...Martha Spivey of Gainesboro, Tennessee, with whom "in all likelihood" (that's his lawyer speaking) he has a 6-year-old daughter...
...We all know Tony Blair, and he likes us," Mr...
...In an effort to win back the trust of its former American friends, Nigeria bestowed the country's highest award—Grand Commander of the Federal Republic of Nigeria —on Libya's benevolent Muammar alQaddafi...
...Does T-M know something we don't...
...Much to the displeasure of his spouse Ms...
...The Mattel company has introduced a wheelchair-bound Barbie doll —just the sort of contraption sure to be stolen by little brothers nationwide in search of a new set of wheels to play with...
...He just did masculine things, so it never entered my mind that he could be a woman," said Miss Margaret Anne Hunter about Thorne Wesley James Groves, the person she married last year...
...Never fear: Mr...
...The winner is...
...I saw 'him' shave every day and I saw him fix my car...
...Star star Dick Morris worked new magic with Sen...
...Joanie Weston, 62, a Roller Derby all-star nineteen consecutive times in the 1950's and 6o's, died in Hayward, California...
...In her prime she was known as the "Blonde Bomber," without once ever having set foot on an Air Force plane...
...He played Flipper in the famous television series, and was believed to have been named after longtime Nixon friend Bebe Rebozo of nearby Key Biscayne...
...Kathy Lee Gifford, the cheerleader and labor activist, Mr...
...Right on: a tabloid lawyer for a tabloid presidency...
...Millie, author of the only important book on the Bush presidency, died aged ii, in Kennebunkport, Maine...
...WP version: r children Roger's Reach you The American Spectator • July r997 9...
...Frank Gifford, another of those famous USC halfbacks, showed he still had some rushing yards left in him...
...In a publishing scandal that would do Ralph Nader proud, Newsweek recalled its special child-rearing issue, which on page 58 listed raw carrot chunks and zwieback crackers as suitable fare for toothless five-month-olds...
...Tony Blair, the kid PM, quickly found his Arthur Schlesinger...
...Incidentally, the White House has denied it was behind the May 30 release of a videotape depicting Paula Jones's lawyer Gilbert Davis in his cups at a 1994 social gathering, and suggesting to a co-reveler that she's the sort who should be appearing in Playboy...
...Janet Reno (assuming career officials at the Justice Department recommend she resign...
...By month's end Our President was sweating the biggest bullets of all, learning in Paris that the Supreme Court had dropped the big one back home, 9-o...
...The performance was filmed before a live audience of one, a woman named Suzen, and turned out to be the property of the Globe, another of those mainstream conservative journals that are making life for the hoity-toity in these United States so cruel and unusual...
...Times-Mirror also decided that Mr...
...Already one can imagine Lanny Davis or Ann Lewis defending their man by claiming that in fact the president was not incorrect in what he said: All those missiles happen to be pointed at America's adults...
...He is being charged with the sort of crime that comes from watching Dennis Rodman once too often...
...Flinn seems to have much in common with Moll Flanders...
...Clinton had bragged that "for the first time since the dawn of the nuclear age there is not a single Russian missile pointed at America's children...
...Nelson with a far more prestigious award for his historic role in keeping his paper from breaking the Troopergate story...
...Trent Lott, who like the Scud he's become flew to the defense of B-52 stewardess Kelly Flinn, just before it was revealed that Ms...
...County Court House, just an outlet pass away from this magazine's central offices...
...To protect against pneumonia, Mr...
...Mobutu to you May Was way cool, depriving the northern reaches of any semblance of spring while giving Washington a deluxe taste of California's fresh clime...
...Wood wrote on behalf of the Harold Pinter crowd...
...plastic...
...Clinton was not about to be distracted by right wing—financed petty partisan extremism...
...In other foreign news, Poland's free-market Communist president Aleksander Kwasniewski was greeted in Paris with a barrage of eggs from four fellow countrymen, who weren't there to celebrate Easter...
...By the way, all that talk about group-leader John McLaughlin being twice as old as his new fiancée is simply not true...
...Though not a Kerry or a Kennedy, she too is seeking an annulment...
...Why not recycled copies of Salman Rushdie's fiction...
...Davis, a candidate for Virginia attorney general, now emerges as the logical choice to replace the Hon...
...ln other cosmic news, the perennial question, "Paper or plastic...
...In response, a grateful Boris Yeltsin — Brezhnev-like in his unsteadiness, Bob Bennett—like in his pastiness—promised to dismantle all Russian nuclear warheads pointed in our direction...
...A Sotheby's auction of her intimate possessions raised nearly $7 million...
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