Current Wisdom
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CURRENT WISDOM USA Today Ill-timed ponderings from Larry King, fox-hunter: I'm afraid The American Spectator's movement to impeach the president will turn out to be a dog that won't...
...Viciously false accusations," MBNA's ave Spartin said of the hoary insinuations ound Biden's home sale...
...Our troupe included Canadian activist Ruth Rosenhek and two Australians, eco-bard Neil Pike and environmentalist John Seed...
...Clinm remains a puzzle to her critics and her ipporters, her public image shifting as swift' as her hairstyle...
...It might be that in his value system, aiding poor people around the world is more important than being faithful to his wife...
...She is a to-year-old matron who strikes terror into the White House staff...
...JULIA HIKORY CAROL ORGAIN JOYFUL NOISE Norwich Editor's Note: Valley News newsprint comes from Canada...
...During the trip we were horrified by clear cuts, burned hillsides and lumber trucks loaded with ancient giants...
...DECEMBER 6, 1997] Valley News (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) Every great newspaper seeks the approval of its loyal readers, even if they confuse great firs with Moby Dick and carrot sticks: Joyful Noise (Upper Valley eco-troubadors Julia Hikory and Carol Orgain) recently returned from touring the Pacific Northwest with the Deep Ecology Rainforest Roadshow...
...Results include Stomach Acid Dream, painter Mia Brownell's series on synthetic food production and consumption created with symbolic and pop art imagery...
...If anyone needs to be impeached, it's the Republican Congress...
...Who knows...
...JANUARY 5, 1998] New York Times eporter James Bennet does his best Anna uindlen imitation: fter six years as a national figure, Mrs...
...It is ridiculous that we are not all using toilet paper made from recycled paper...
...I've learned to respond to these diatribes by nodding appreciatively and taking notes...
...JANUARY 26, 1998] Nashville Banner A carefully worded statement from Phyllis Warner of Nashville, Tennessee: If Bill Clinton has an affair, that's his business...
...All sorts of politicians have accomplished more in real terms, but none has ever made us feel the way Kennedy did...
...The average amount of recycled fiber content in Valley News newsprint is more than 40 percent, compared to a national average of slightly more than 25 percent...
...The Spectator trots out musty tales first printed by The News Journal—Biden's 1996 ale of his $1.2 million Montchanin home to in MBNA exec, and the bank's hiring of 3iden's son Hunter the same year...
...She is an antiwar organize who said she wanted to join the Marines...
...Only Bill Clinton has the courage to face and defeat these dangerous monsters...
...Although the principal had requested a female presenter, a male was sent...
...She is a buttoned-up awyer who sang show tunes on television with Rosie O'Donnell...
...Although the information was important, this educational experience was counterproductive...
...CURRENT WISDOM USA Today Ill-timed ponderings from Larry King, fox-hunter: I'm afraid The American Spectator's movement to impeach the president will turn out to be a dog that won't hunt...
...The class consisted of middle-age women, Yemeni Muslims wearing head coverings and Latinas...
...JANUARY 20, 1998] Chapel Hill Herald Hagiolatrous blubbering from a Tar Heel columnist of rare libidinal dynamism: All this talk about John F. Kennedy's sex life leaves me cold...
...The speaker brings a bagful of crops, including condoms and bananas...
...That was affirmative action at its worst...
...By the way, where does the paper for the Valley News come from...
...I really wouldn't mind sharing him with others...
...So be it...
...JANUARY 27, 1998] San Francisco Weekly In the City by the Bay, where local aesthetes grow blasé toward Monet after their first drug bust and towards the entire Renaissance after their respective sex changes, an announcement of a forthcoming event sure to tickle the afflatus: Hasmat Alert: Nine artists examine how we continue to suffer from technology we originally created to help ourselves in the group show "Biohazard...
...But leave it to the Spectator to spot a polital agenda in the unlikeliest of places...
...As we walked in the green, silent cathedral forests among trees as old as 2,000 years, we experienced wonder beyond words —a reverence for these whales of the vegetable realm, the tallest living organisms on the planet...
...He's our only guard against becoming a totalitarian state...
...Clinton said...
...For how can we attack the so-called race problem in America if we continue to allow the white problem to persist...
...Delaware's Democratic senator ha...
...Which is why a visit to Havana is such a refreshing experience: in Cuba, anti-Americanism isn't confined to low muttering in dark cafes and bars— it's official state policy...
...Maybe that was not in spite of but because of his healthy sexual appetite...
...Students squirm as he talks bout the correct way to use and remove acondom and how to dispose of it...
...6he is a Methodist Midwesterner who held maginary conversations with Eleanor Rooevelt to enhance her self-awareness...
...We were shocked to learn that these irreplaceable trees are still being turned into pulp for toilet paper...
...Take review of sci-fi film Alien Resurrection: "he movies of the Alien series have always ad as subtext the feminist view of abortion...
...Audible Mello Dronic Studio founder Can Campbell, meanwhile, meditates on the way we sully our own air in a repetitive five-minute audio piece featuring the sounds of one person breathing interrupted by short blasts from aerosol spray cans...
...And she is an ardent eminist who stands by her man...
...Students drop their heads onto their desks or flip papers in front of their eyes to screen the speaker from their vision...
...We must begin to work on the white problem in America...
...We need to keep in mind that the most immoral president in history, Richard Nixon, never even took off his tie...
...DECEMBER 27, 1997] News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware) A great Delaware daily rises to the defense of its favorite son and of the money changers in the local temple, slandering a news organ whose only vice is Truth: With the magazine's usual scorn for liber als, the arch-conservative American Spec tator this month slags Joe Biden as "The Senator From MBNA...
...DECEMBER 24, 1997] the American Spectator • March 1998 93...
...You know, the judge asked us not to talk about it, and I think at least somebody involved in it ought to follow her instructions," Mr...
...If I were his wife, I would be honored...
...Who knew she'd use the prize as a kite instead of a wheelbarrow...
...It is trying to starve Americans and deprive them of health care...
...Nothing in the article is new...
...The women students were clearly offended...
...Affirmative action has been around for 3o years, but the problem of prejudice and discrimination continues to exist We admit that affirmative action has its flaws and the best example of that is George Bush's affirmative action appointment of Clarence Thomas to the U.S...
...DECEMBER 20, 1997] Washington Post The Lover Boy President ingratiating himself to yet another authority figure and serving once again as a moral paragon to the Nation: President Clinton would not respond to reporters' questions about the case of today, citing an order issued by Judge Susan Webber Wright of Federal District Court to limit discussion of the case...
...None of it diminishes Kennedy's importance as the greatest leader of our time...
...His presentation would have been unsetfling for many women...
...As a Canadian, a citizen of a nation so thoroughly Americanized that I'm increasingly having trouble explaining what makes it a discrete political entity...
...The beauty of untouched forests and the courage, passion and commitment of those who are involved in direct action to save them kept us from despair...
...JANUARY 25, 1998] Los Angeles Times Miss Norine Dresser, folklorist and author d Multicultural Manners describes the hocking scene as virginal Muslims and iubile Latinas [sic] meet the latest verion of the American Puritan: ['he adult education principal hires an AIDS :ducation representative to address a class, lemystify the disease and explain modes of protection...
...cozied up to MBNA Corp., Biden's leadirq 92 March 1998 • The American Spectatoi ource of campaign funds, the Spectator ays MBNA employees donated $62,850 oward Biden's 1996 re-election...
...So shut up about the man's personal life...
...Maybe the president should appoint a commission to study why white people are as they are...
...Students were so emotionally distressed they could not absorb the facts...
...What's more, the U.S...
...embargo means that Cuba is the one place that the all-purpose retort favoured by Americans abroad—namely, if-you-hate-us-so-much-then-what's-that-Coke-doing-in-your-hand — is useless...
...Cubans can reply to these yuma (attached to anything American, this pejorative term is derived from the Spanish pronunciation of United) with pride and integrity: "Here we drink Tropicola...
...Instead of the ubiquitous running tally of the billions of hamburgers McDonald's has served, the city's few billboards favour such uplifting statistics as, "Throughout the world, 30o million children sleep on the streets—and none of them is Cuban...
...Just a series of cheap shots, trying to :onnect things that aren't really connect-;c1," Biden staffer Claire DeMatteis said...
...Havana's streets, like those of East Berlin before the wall came down, are unadorned by Calvin Klein's anorexics or Marlboro's dudes...
...JANUARY 12, 1998] The Nation John Leonard slips into his frilliest lingerie and commits literary criticism upon Toni Morrison, leaving no precious metaphor untapped: So abundant, even prodigal, is Toni Morrison's first new novel since her Nobel Prize, so symphonic, light-struck and sheer, as if each page had been rubbed transparent, and so much the splendid sister of Beloved—she has even gone back to Brazil, not this time to see the three-spoke slave collar and the iron mouth-bit but to check out candomble — that I realize I've been holding my breath since December 1993...
...The historical facts are that preferences for white men and their families have been the practice in America for 30o years...
...After such levitation, weren't all of us in for a fall...
...Since 1979, Seed has been working tirelessly to save disappearing rain forests worldwide and has organized many road-shows...
...Supreme Court...
...DECEMBER 3-9,1997] San Francisco Chronicle The public-spirited Marion J. Woods finds still more work for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the twilight years of her estranged husband's administration: I have been opposed to preferences all my life...
...He appealed to all that was ennobling in the human spirit and he gave us a sense of strength and dignity, of greatness, that no other leader has in our time...
...DECEMBER 20, 1997] Globe and Mail Taras Grescoe, a Canadian Quixote peregrinating through huge Marxist-Leninist Cuba, exults in the ambiance of a truly unfree and unprosperous hell hole: If there's one undercurrent that links the varied and desultory conversations I've had aboard Czech trains, Mexican buses and Calais-bound ferries, it's the widespread resentment toward the United States, and everything the country stands for...
...Eventually, he unwraps and opens a condom and brings out a rubber replica of an erect penis...
...This year's show focused on the need to protect the rapidly vanishing old-growth forests of North America...
...Tension fills the classroom as he begins Ifs discourse...
...From the point of view of these women, it was disrespectful and embarrassing to have a male present explicit sexual details to them...
Vol. 31 • March 1998 • No. 3
