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CURRENT SDOM New York Times Inveighing once again against Judge Kenneth Starr (MA., J.D.), columnist Anthony Lewis (HaHaHa) evinces the symptoms of TMS (Too Much Shakespeare): It is hard...
...Unlike substances such as tobacco or alcohol, which are also readily available, food is necessary for survival...
...A medical explanation for Clinton's faulty memory "may thereby help maintain international stability during the current transient global economic fluctuation...
...McCarthy, the bullying thug from Wisconsin, is enjoying a concurrent revival in the United States...
...Where does Sidney Blumenthal find these guys...
...Consider how we got to where we are...
...They're punishing him for somehow keeping her in spite of his sexual hungers...
...For starters, unlike heroin or cocaine, food is legal and readily available almost anywhere that people gather to work, play, shop, and live—from the rows of candy at the gas station to the beer and bags of peanuts at the baseball stadium, from the gum machine at the Laundromat to the bowl of peppermints on the receptionist's desk...
...JANUARY 11, 1999] San Francisco Examiner The learned Mr...
...Erol Gulay on behalf of "true visionaries who make the progress of civilization possible," and whom he is considerate enough not to name: Predominant on your list [of twentieth-century "builders and titans"] were people who successfully and shamelessly exploited the ideas of others for their own profit...
...Listening to him was like watching smart bombs hit their targets on CNN...
...from Holy Hunger: A Memoir of Desire, by Margaret Bullitt-Jonas...
...cause them to interpret the events differently...
...Starr has this habit of pointing fingers at other people to masquerade his own wrongdoing, and this is just another example of that sleight of hand," said White House spokesman Jim Kennedy...
...MARION YUE Studio City [DECEMBER 25-31, 1998] Washington Times In Washington's venerable Good Times, Clinton apparatchik Colonel Jim Kennedy suffers a stupendous bout of what his doctor would call projection: The White House yesterday attacked Mr...
...No, this looks to be mostly about vengeance...
...Sadly, if this trend continues, we may find ourselves at a loss for the true visionaries who make the progress of civilization possible...
...44 ...a presidential Valsalva maneuver during each of his recent escapades may have legally allowed him to not recall specific events...
...Barney Frank in his Stormtrooper mode: "Yes, I would find it hard to work with Bob Barr (R.-Ga...
...JANUARY 28,1999] The American Spectator • March 1999 81...
...At every stage the hand of the extreme right is evident...
...Mendel, a psychotherapist...
...The researchers conclude that their findings may help explain President Bill Clinton's recent behavior...
...Weekly At least the word wasn't "niggardly": I have taken offense at the review of Orpheus Descending by Paul Cohen [New Theater Reviews, December 11-17...
...The article quoted one trooper as saying a woman named Paula was willing to be the Governor's "regular girlfriend...
...but for many years now my feeling has been, that if Bob Barr caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be a great act of discipline to pour it on him...
...It's not about the Constitution or the fate of the nation...
...But his rebuttals were surgical, incisive and devastating...
...It began five years ago, when a far-right magazine, The American Spectator, printed an article by David Brock about the Arkansas troopers who guarded Bill Clinton when he was Governor...
...The researchers believe the phenomenon may be due to the "Valsalva maneuver" that occurs during sexual intercourse...
...This stops drainage of blood from the head...
...What happens to Bill Clinton will not change the course of human history...
...Two Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that sexual intercourse can cause temporary amnesia in elderly men, Reuters Health reported recently...
...JANUARY 20, 1999] Time (International Edition) Dithyrambic pronunciamentos from Mr...
...Alfred A. Knopf, 253 pages, $23] 80 March 1999 The American Spectator Detroit Free Press Hysteria from the callipygian columnist Susan Ager, indefatigable defender of our adolescent president: Listening last week to the Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearings, I had to stop now and again to remind myself that all those words, all that time, money and energy, was about one man's libido and his fear of exposure...
...JANUARY 12, 1999] Health Care Weekly Review (Southfield, Michigan) On the frontiers of medical science two young researchers of high intelligence and broad-ranging perspectives give hope to a White House under fire...
...columnist Anthony Lewis (HaHaHa) evinces the symptoms of TMS (Too Much Shakespeare): It is hard to find words for Kenneth Starr's behavior as a prosecutor...
...I cannot believe this appeared in the L.A...
...It is apparent that the bulldozing campaign by the Republicans will not end," said Ms...
...Starr's assertions...
...If it was an honest mistake, i.e., using the wrong adjective, where was your editor...
...We Americans and Congress should be ashamed at ourselves for pointing our collective finger at him and chanting "liar, liar, pants on fire" just because we disagree with his interpretation of what truth is...
...She must learn to interact with it: to handle it, prepare it, and eat it in a way that keeps her sane, in a way that keeps her alive, both when she's with others and when she's alone...
...Weekly...
...First came a reinvigorated Stalin-Hitler equivalency campaign, which for decades has sought to place the Soviet dictator on an equal footing with his German adversary, at least in terms of sheer savagery...
...If Stalin was as bad as Hitler, then McCarthy's depredations against civil liberties and common decency become more palatable—extremism in defense of liberty, to invoke the late Sen...
...What one person believes to be the truth may not be what another person believes...
...JANUARY 25, 1999] New York Times How our heroic president got himself impeached, as explained by the mesmerizing Anthony Lewis to a room of little children who will never be able to digest their cookies and milk ever again: But it is also the culmination of years of political effort by a passionate minority to destroy this President...
...These leaders followed a disturbing pattern of capitalism and of the American Century, in which ruthlessness, selfishness, corporate raiding and Darwinian business practices were rewarded...
...FEBRUARY 4, 1999] L.A...
...But when he used the adjective "sallow" to describe actor Alex Liu, who is obviously at least part Chinese, I found it racist and insensitive...
...This cerebrovascular movement may affect memory and other intellectual functions...
...And in a moment of self-analysis, she added: "Their efforts are so abusive that I was beginning to feel a sense of discouragement...
...The ones that seem to me to fit are the adjectives Hamlet had for his murderous uncle: "remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless...
...The two have absolutely no relationship to each other beyond the way they sound and look, but it's easy to confuse them, which is reason enough to consign "niggardly" (along with all other variations on "niggard") to the trash pile...
...I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning...
...Why not...
...A recovering food addict can't simply swear off food...
...in fact, I found most of what Mr...
...JANUARY 3, 1999] The Great Books Series Authoress Miss Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, another of Yuppie America's recovering food addicts, makes the long-overdue case for famine: Addiction to food is different from other substance addictions...
...With Stalin's further downgrading, it's easy to see why Sen...
...But not only that...
...NOVEMBER 18, 1998] Law News Network.com Mr...
...During the Valsalva movement, a withholding of the breath and a concurrent tightening of the muscles puts pressure on the chest and neck...
...Instead of stimulating a more freewheeling argument about the exaggerated menace of communism, the entombment of Marx and Lenin appears to have resurrected and solidified some of the worst elements of American historical dogma about Josef Stalin, World War II, the Cold War and McCarthyism, none of it very edifying and some of it downright sinister...
...It was exhilarating to hear so many credible and persuasive sentences, many of which had not been uttered before, strung together right in a row...
...I did not disagree with the review...
...The ultra anti-Stalinists believe that liberal and leftist dupes have somehow given Stalin a free ride by focusing on the more obvious crimes of Adolf Hitler...
...Case in point: five people witness a crime, yet the statements they give to the police aren't always the same...
...Because their beliefs, personalities, etc...
...EROL GULAY, AGE 15 Locust Valley, N.Y...
...JANUARY 19, 1999] Rolling Stone The Hon...
...DECEMBER 15, 1998] Newsday John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's magazine, always knew there'd be a downside to the end of the Cold War: I'm afraid I've been a naive liberal...
...This does not make them liars...
...FEBRUARY 1, 1999] New York Times What Adolf Hitler and Henry Hyde have in common as seen by Ellen from Manhattan, defender of our Virgin President: As she watches Republicans in Congress push ahead with impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, Ellen Mendel of Manhattan says she feels the same despair that she did as a girl in Nazi Germany when the efforts of a stubborn group of leaders snowballed, crushing the will of the people...
...Brock has since said that he regrets throwing in that name...
...Roger Pa rloff, LNN's prodigious twelve-year-old reporter, chronicles his reaction to seeing big people: Coming after a week in which the audience was forced to listen for some 15 hours as Republican politicians pretended to be lawyers, Ruff's performance was bracing...
...DECEMBER 13, 1998] Washington Post Come on now, Jonny— from Jonathan Yardley's trashy Monday sermon: It is a pity that "niggardly," a perfectly good if dated word that means "meanly parsimonious, close-fisted, stingy," is the phonetic near-twin of one of the vilest—if not the vilest—words in the English language...
...Ruff was highly selective, of course, in the contentions he chose to address...
...Liu is Asian...
...Barry Goldwater...
...This was an actual lawyer showing how it's really done...
...We report two patients who presented with transient global amnesia immediately after sexual intercourse," said Chi V. Dang, MD, and Lawrence B. Gardner, MD, in a letter to The Lancet...
...No more than that...
...Wisely, for the first hour of his concise, two-and-a-half-hour presentation, he steered clear of the most dangerous aspect of his job—trying to defend Clinton on the facts–focusing instead on the more plausible legal and political grounds for dismissing the case...
...John Hart explains why kat food is kaviar: The president could not have committed perjury because truth is subjective...
...In the prosperous United States, food is everywhere, which means that in the course of a single day a recovering food addict must confront her drug over and over again...
...I think Mr...
...Liu deserved more than being called "of sickly, pale-yellow hue" (Webster's New World Dictionary)—or why mention him at all, or why not "He sucked" or anything but "yellowish hue...
...Cohen observed to be true...
...We live in a multiracial city...
...They're punishing Bill Clinton for thrusting upon America a first lady who is smart, gutsy, accomplished and opinionated...
...I have been feeling very isolated...
Vol. 32 • March 1999 • No. 3
