It’s because the editor is an Aries, right? According to the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, quoted in the Saint Louis Journalism Review and then in the Chicago Journalist (March), “The Tribune is the largest daily in the country that runs a horoscope without a disclaimer.” Is a For Sale […]
Tag: Vol. 23 No. 25
Issue of Mar. 31 – Apr. 6, 1994
Posted inArts & Culture
Moral Murder Machine
A FEWER GOOD MEN: THE FUROR OVER GAYS & LESBIANS IN THE MILITARY Lifeline Theatre at the Organic Theater Greenhouse Lab “[If] an army could be made up only of lovers and their beloved,” says Phaedrus in Plato’s Symposium, ” . . . such troops although few would conquer pretty well all the world. For […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Cigarettes=Genocide
Dear editor: It was with much interest that I read Patrick Griffin’s “Let’s Ban Smoking Outright” [March 18]. My dad smoked cigarettes, cigars, and pipes for many years. He is now down to only smoking a pipe occasionally. Of my father’s offspring three out of the four of us also took up smoking in our […]
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Steve Reich’s music is so rarely heard in Orchestra Hall that the local premiere of a major orchestral compostion of his is welcome news even if it is belated. Three Movements, commissioned by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra in 1985, represents the New York minimalist at the top of his form, asserting with clarity and […]
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Let’s Ban Tobacco Advertising
Dear sir, I found two very interesting things in this week’s Reader [March 18], the article by Patrick Griffin suggesting that the banning of tobacco could be a good thing and a handout, “Joe’s Place,” very cleverly promoting Camel cigarettes. This combination set me thinking; while the outlawing of tobacco is sure to lead to […]