Current Wisdom

...Steven Patterson received for this performance (The "Gay-hit" of San Francisco) the Drama-Logue Performance award...

...Some of us take to wearing masks, though these have their drawbacks...

...trollops and hate radio hucksters, feeding an endless line of lies and half-truths to jealous journalists and envious editorialists more concerned with their own self-importance and trashing the good reputation of a great state than the truth...

...In fact, before coming to New York to edit textbooks for Random House, she had taught the likes of Stokely Carmichael and Claude Brown in the nation's capital...

...CURRENT WISDOM Washington Times Washington's most illustrious daily publishes a memo from White House hit man Paul Begala to White House hit man James Carville, wherein the fellows tender their assessment of the ordinary American in one bedizzying sentence: "The president's attackers are a motley band, consisting primarily of perjuring partisan politicians...

...It only remains for me to express my wish that Sandra Steingraber has many happy and productive years ahead before she gets the opportunity to be "recycled...

...You're never going to see a presidential candidate talk about giving health care or anything to the people at large...

...And violated too many of the Bill of Rights...

...She has been held mostly in solitary confinement, denied exercise as well as a Bible...

...In her own opinion, maybe black folks, having had so much practice on the problem, knew who their friends were better than white liberals full of theory...

...Brutal, raw and totally transcedent...

...In recognizing the figure of the woman traveler, Wesley produces new readings of canonical texts that subvert social and political assumptions in texts by men and construct alternative arrangements in texts by women...

...And I've even thought of a possibility, might he not be—this is a hypothetical question—charged with treason...

...MAY/JUNE 1998] Detroit News Wolverine scribe Betty DeRamus expands the boundaries of the "wacky and weird": At 4 p.m...

...I have a funny feeling Mr...

...Muammar Qaddafi's pretty letters, New Frontiersman Pierre Salinger suffers that hoary disease that afflicts so many progressives upon being welcomed into the scintillating presence of a Stalin, a Castro, or—strange as it may sound —a Qaddafi, to wit, Tyranny Envy: While other nations detest Libya, they do not understand that when Muammar Qaddafi took power he effected huge changes in restructuring the nation to make sure that there were no homeless people or unemployed or badly paid citizens...

...She is in constant back pain, exacerbated by sleeping on mattresses on concrete floors and spending many hours forced to sit upright in holding cells...

...She was "housed on the same row with murderers, molesters, abusers and psychotic prisoners one of whom attempted to stab her with a sharpened pencil," according to a brief filed by her attorney last week...

...Wedneysday August 5 Thursday August 6 Friday August 7 Steven Patterson with "Beauty" Directed by John Sowle Confined to his cell, a loneley prisoner creates an imaginary world of erotic and spiritual fulfillment Steven Patterson's acclaimed solo performance invokes the prison writings of Jean Genet in a full-frontal assault...

...Kenneth) Starr may be headed for prison...

...MAY 12., 1998] Ms...

...Curious...

...It was no 80 August 1998 • The American Spectator more than the usual condescending twitter until suddenly a big cat, an African panther, scattered these pouter pigeons and the room was thick with ruffled feathers...

...However, these days a woman having a wedding without a groom doesn't seem all that wacky or weird...

...MAY 30, 1998] Salon Midst this Clinton propaganda sheet's soft-porn features and UFO sightings, writer John Leonard in his customary sudorific prose describes a literary apparition: In the spring of the revolutionary year of 1968, on the Hudson River side of Manhattan, at a party fizzed and finger-fed by Esquire magazine Whiffenpoofs, in front of one of those high-rise blue aquarium windows looking down on Grant's Tomb, the white liberals were disdaining black folks for liking Bobby Kennedy too much and Eugene McCarthy not at all...

...Despite changing historical circumstances from one American epoch to another, men have generally been associated with adventurous movement and women with domestic stasis, a bias that has obscured recognition of a significant trope: the woman traveler throughout American literature...

...Stanke, 200 pages, price unavailable] USA Today Columnist Jeannie Williams interviews Gore Vidal, as the flames flicker and die in his tired loins and humor utterly vanishes from his balmy cerebrum, alas for the apolaustic life left in the sunshine of southern Italy: This veteran political observer and critic says the Clintons' problems began with plans for health care and insurance changes: "It's a warning to all other politicians, 'Don't you ever touch our money,' which is insurance companies, in this case...

...The handbook can be bought from the Natural Death Centre, zo Heber Road, London NW2 6AA, U.K...

...But the author of Burr (on Aaron Burr) says of the Clinton investigation: "I don't think they will ever dare impeach him...

...If you're willing to spend $25 for dinner, entertainment and the chance to aid abused women, you can watch Quarles promise to pursue "positive self-love, tranquillity and peace...

...Secret Journeys examines the subversive and constructive narrative of female journey from the seventeenth century to the present in such works as John Greenleaf Whittier's Snowbound, Mary Rowlandson's A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mary Rowlandson, Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Sarah Ome Jewett's The Country ofthe Pointed Firs, Edith Wharton's Summer, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Eudora Welty's short fiction, and Elizabeth Bishop's poetry...

...There'll even be some celebrities on hand, including boxing champ Thomas "Boom Boom" Johnson and media personality Ike "Mega Man" Griffin, who'll be among the groomsmen...

...SPRING 1998] State University of New York Press Announcing Marilyn C. Wesley's Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women's Travel in American Literature, one more scholarly tome to send the hounds howling at the moon and Thelma and Louise into deepest cerebrations: Travel is the root metaphor for Western progress, a fact particularly evident in a colonizing and immigrant nation like the United States...

...She was our worst fear—black, beautiful, laughing at us in our very own Shakespeare, but with a lilting lash...

...How many times have I stood next to a perfumed person, allowing my clothes to "soak up" the fragrance, without realizing it because I have my mask on...

...She is Susan McDougal, and her constant degradation as outlined last week in a motion by her attorney, Mark Geragos...

...The New Natural Death Handbook provides details...

...I don't know whether to laugh, cry or shout "hallelujah...

...or we will do to you what we did to the Clintons,' and they got the message...

...The country is one of the most stable in the Arab world...

...She had seen some streets, as well as the library...

...JUNE 2, 1998] The Great Books Series In an introduction to an anthology of Col...

...Hillary-hating misogynists...

...strumpets, Nixon apologists, hired guns for cigarette companies, felons, judges who trade favors for jobs...

...My, but she could scourge...

...He's broken too many of the laws of the land...

...Doctors report that a precondition of scoliosis has degenerated to the point where parts of her vertebrae are fused...

...bitter, defeated pathetic former political rivals of the president...

...This was my first glimpse of Toni Morrison...

...Unembalmed bodies are being placed in either cardboard, recycled coffins, shrouds, or biodegradable body bags and buried in woodlands...

...Actually, if Libya were not under sanctions right now for the accusation that it was responsible for the Pan Am 103 bombing, it could conceivably be one of the Mediterranean's most important tourist countries...

...They will carry this scent with them for the rest of the day...

...Helped along by the oil boom of the 1970's, Libya under Qaddafi has changed from a sleepy, unimportant tribal monarchy to a revolutionary third world state with a reach into other countries and continents...

...A few years ago, Quarles' solo wedding might have set loose a flood of jokes about her honeymoon and whether she'd have to divorce herself if she decided to many a man...

...In the immortal pages of that formal organ of the Women of the Fevered Brow, conespondent Katharine Gilchrist elucidates surprising Glad Tidings associated with humankind's contributions to that vast compost heap that is the planet Earth: Steingraber also wonders if green burials are "a possibility...

...On this side of the Atlantic, they are a reality...

...Sunday August 2 (onley for female) Monday August 3 Mina Hautong with: "Sporty, Dykey and American" Following the succes of her hit one woman show, "Wet, Dykey, and American" Dutch/American stand up comedienn Mina Hartong presents a new show written especially for the Gay-Games 1998...

...There, she had seen a car stop on a SW side street, and the attorney general of the United States leave his jacket on the back seat, loosen his tie, roll up his sleeves and shoot some baskets on a cement court with black schoolchildren, who liked him quite a lot...

...From: Escape to Hell and Other Stories, by Muammar Qaddafi...

...JUNE 15, 1998] Los Angeles Times Clinton apologist Robert Scheer travels beyond the outer limits of the credible in pursuit of the absurd: They transported her from prison to court in shackles inside a wire mesh cage in the middle of a bus, surrounded by male prisoners who exposed themselves and taunted her with obscenities...

...Sunday in Southfield's Ramada Hotel, Sylvia Quarles will marry herself...

...MAY 12, 1998] International Homosexual Theater Amsterdam A limpidly written (and un-spellchecked) press release from the Stratford-upon-Avon of poofter arte: After following on the newsletter I can inform you, that the foundation IHTA, give concrete form, in co-production with the Pleintheater in Amsterdam and will deliver during the Gay-Games two shows...

...On several occasions, she has been chained to a toilet for hours at a time...

...Fragrances emit fragrance molecules into the air...

...When I finally take the mask off in a "safe space" for a breath of fresh air, I am overwhelmed by the scent on my clothes...

...Sporty, Dykey, and American" will include Mina's style of storytelling, audience participation, and naughty behavior, with a special treat, the events you won't see at the Games...

...SUMMER-FALL 1998] The American Spectator • August 1998 81...

...A hypnotic, disturbing, waking dream of a show with the stink and sensuality of a seedy back-room...

...Come and see a whole new version of Gay sports...

...When you add into the mix the tendency for most people to use multiple scented products every day (soap, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, cologne, hairspray, and more), you begin to get a picture of people surrounding themselves with an unknown cloud of chemicals...

...JUNE 11, 1998] Star Tribune In Minneapolis's famed daily the celebrated olfactologist, Miss Erika Anderson, reveals the existence of yet another vast conspiracy sure to alarm the White House: Kudos to the DFL Rules Committee for requesting that attendees to their state convention refrain from wearing fragrances, and shame to those who laugh at their request...

...Other people will enter and pass through this cloud, and these chemicals will stick to their clothes, skin and hair...