Love of Labor An editorial we’ve just torn out of the Sun-Times acknowledges the “brilliant intellect” albeit “unsufferable personality” of Robert Bork. A month ago the New Republic ran a piece on John Sununu’s infatuation with his own brains. The writer didn’t like Sununu but didn’t doubt his candlepower. Why, he’s actually in Mensa! If […]
Tag: Vol. 20 No. 43
Issue of Aug. 8 – 14, 1991
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Raging Belle
RAGE WITHIN/WITHOUT Kathy Randels at Cafe Voltaire “I’m going to tell you a story,” says Kathy Randels to open her solo performance Rage Within/Without. Her head is slightly bowed and she holds a small lamp in her hands, casting demonic shadows across her face. Her voice is an unsteady rasp, though she stares wide-eyed at […]
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Covert Messages
To the editors: While posing as an objective account of the city awarding certain gay leaders for their efforts, the article of June 21 on these awards [“Gay Life: The Hall of Fame Flap”] delivers several covert messages only for the initiated, which is sneaky. I’ll get to these later. First there is an issue […]
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Following the Rainbow
Photographer Tony Maine first heard about the Rainbow gathering in 1975 when he was living in Berkeley, California. Some acquaintances had heard about an intriguing event taking place in New Mexico on the Fourth of July and wondered if Maine would drive. When they got to the Gila National Forest, they found thousands of people […]
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Survivors of Incest
To the editors: Hearty applause is due the four courageous clients of Attorney Hope Keefe, and gratitude to Keefe as well. (“The Law of Incest,” 7/19). These survivors of incest are boldly choosing one newly available and promising avenue of recourse by suing their parents as the perpetrators of the incest in an attempt to […]
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Shakers
Five years ago these people were asked very politely, in an undertone hushed by repugnance bordering on horror, to take their Laurel and Hardys and their grinning duckies and their big-breasted bimbos and leave the Antique and Art Glass Salt Shaker Collec
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In Defense of Chiropractors
To the editors: As an adult who spent her childhood and adolescence in an overmedicated fog, I feel I must respond to James Beebe’s extremely narrow-minded and arrogant letter on the subject of chiropractic [July 26]. I have learned by experience the difference between traditional AMA drug therapy and chiropractic treatment. I’ve never been to […]
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Inside Art
SOURCE MATERIAL: A GLIMPSE INTO THE ARTIST’S STUDIO at the Center for Contemporary Art Artists have often made paintings of their studios. What they offer the viewer, however, is rarely a snapshot of everything visible. They give only limited access, carefully controlling what we see. Vermeer’s The Studio, for instance, presents us with an orderly […]
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Our Disco Sycophant
To the editors: I’ve been reading Bill Wyman’s inanities for a couple of years now and have finally boiled over. It was simply inexcusable for any publication to print his idiotic trashing of Jae-ha Kim (7-19-91), whose writing is far superior to his own. He bases his petty diatribe on arcane differences between her definition […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Story Rhonda Jean Merryman, 33, wound up in intensive care at a hospital in Inola, Oklahoma, in April after being thrown from a garbage truck one night. The truck was going 30 miles an hour; she was thrown as she was attempting to simultaneously drive and fix the truck’s headlights. She had one foot […]
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Writer Craves Hot Dogs?
To the editors: In my opinion, Judith Lin Eftekhar’s “Picking Miss Polonaise” in the 7-26 issue of Reader was truly an insulting cheap shot at the Polish community of Chicago. While reading the nonsense, I honestly came to the conclusion that her many references to pork products and sausages likely reflect her frustration with the […]
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Blacklight International Film Festival
The tenth edition of the annual festival of black independent film continues Friday, August 9, through Monday, August 12, at the Film Center, Art Institute, Columbus Drive at Jackson, and the DuSable Museum of African American History, 56th Place and Cottage Grove. Tickets are $5 ($7 for True Identity), with discounts available to Blacklight and […]
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New Dimensions in Poor Taste
To the editors: In this day and age, I find it just a little hard to believe that those people on the Chicago Tribune’s editorial and writing staff wouldn’t have heard those comments from the Rodney King incident’s transcripts [“Hot Type,” July 26]. If not from the newspaper, then from television reports. Or are we […]
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Calendar Photo Caption
This mixed media piece by Robert Mitchell is part of the Smart Museum’s annual exhibition of work by master of fine arts graduates from the University of Chicago. The show is on view at the museum, located at 5550 S. Greenwood, through Sunday, August 25. call 702-0200 for hours and information.
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Culture Slop
To the editors: Did Lewis Lazare actually go see Book of the Night or did he base his comments [Culture Club, July 5] on Richard Christiansen’s review? If he wanted to see it, he could have called me since my date stood me up for the show. If he did see it, why is he […]