Sun-Times: Shaking Up… Since Dennis Britton took over as editor of the Sun-Times last December, the reporters there have been wondering when he’d grab the paper by the neck and shake it. They’ve found him amiable but distant, able but either uninspiring or not yet ready to inspire. But last week, things happened. On Monday, […]
Tag: Vol. 19 No. 38
Issue of Jul. 5 – 11, 1990
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Cheap Eats: where the Vietnamese restaurant owners go
No great crowds are beating a path to the door of the unpretentious Hoang Mai Restaurant on North Sheridan, but the faithful claim that its food and service are unparalleled among Vietnamese establishments. And that is no small achievement, because there’s plenty of competition. The area around Argyle, from Sheridan to Broadway, is a veritable […]
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Ode to a Hospital
To the editors: Chorus [“Emergency,” March 16]: Let me die at the County and not on the street Let me die at the County Please take me off my feet Let me die at the County I can’t pay my way Let me die at the County When I’m old and gray. I. Ma died […]
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How Hip We Are
WITHOUT YOU I’M NOTHING ** (Worth seeing) Directed by John Boskovich Written by Sandra Bernhard and Boskovich With Sandra Bernhard, John Doe, Steve Antin, Lu Leonard, Ken Foree, and Cynthia Bailey. Once upon a time, before postmodernism came along, art tended to be about reality and the world–not always, to be sure, but more often […]
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How Hard Can That Be?
To the editors: In regard to your article about schools being crowded on the north side, as well as other areas in the city [Neighborhood News, June 8], may I (who would point out that the emperor had no clothes) ask why it takes three years to build a school? I remember that the United […]
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The Cult of Bettelheim
To the editors: “Never kick a man when he’s down,” and certainly Bruno Bettelheim is now down. This saying should really not apply to Bettelheim because he got a free ride from the psychoanalytic mafia in this country for over forty years, and now the worm is turning. Those of us who really knew him […]
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This Is a Job for David Rockefeller
To the editors: This question of the Chicago University Orthogenic School and its leader in times past, Dr. Bruno Bettelheim, seems to be an issue that won’t go away [Letters, April 6 and 20; May 4, 11, and 2 5; and June 8 and 15]. We even have a graduate “Winston 1984” who insists the […]
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The Straight Dope
A baseball-playing friend stymied me with this question. Seven batters step up to the plate in one inning, all from the same team. The inning ends and no one has scored. How? We came up with bases loaded, two pop-outs, a grand slam, and one more pop-out, when the other team claims the grand slam […]
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Talk Radio
To the editors: While I was troubled by the hostility apparent in Bryan Miller’s interview of Peter Dominowski [June 22], some of the new Program Director’s ideas that did leak through jibe with our 35 years experience of trying to listen to WFMT. Apparently Norman Pellegrini’s imagined listener was a person of wealth, alone, somewhere […]
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Pursuit of the Dial Switchers
To the editors: Being a WFMT listener for more years than I care to relate, I took interest in Bryan Miller’s interview with that station’s new program director in the June 22 issue of the Reader. While I’m sure Mr. Dominowski’s intentions are good, I do not get the feeling that he is fully aware […]
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The City File
The death of modern architecture in Chicago, as seen by John Whiteman, director of the Chicago Institute for Architecture & Urbanism: “When I first arrived in ChicagoÉ everyone I met had a fragment from one of Sullivan’s dismantled buildings. These they proudly showed me. ‘Isn’t it beautiful?’ I was asked, repeatedly. Indeed each individual piece […]
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The Cult of Bettelheim
To the editors: “Never kick a man when he’s down,” and certainly Bruno Bettelheim is down now. This saying should really not apply to Bettelheim because he got a free ride from the psychoanalytic mafia in this country for over forty years, and now the worm is turning. Those of us who really knew him […]
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Baby Saving
To the editors: “Confessions of a Baby Saver” by Gina Shepard [June 15] concludes with some profound questions. I do not pretend to have all of the answers, maybe none of the answers, but I can offer some insight. I too, have experienced the world of neo-natal intensive care, as a parent of a pre-mature […]
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Pierre Dorge’s New Jungle Orchestra
One does not easily describe the New Jungle Orchestra–on paper, it sounds like an idea too goofy to actually work–but a place to start would be the sweet, almost tangy sound that Pierre Dorge sometimes extracts from his guitar. Played percussively, it’s close in temperament to the sound of the kora, the gourd harp used […]
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On TV: America, Watch Yourself!
How did the most boring thing in the world become the hottest thing on TV? Is it democracy triumphant, or capitalism run rampant?