Phallus Rising

Written by Douglas Davis on September 1, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Phallus Rising Or, The Prisoner of Joy The phallus, we must always keep in mind, is an idea, not a body part. –Susan Bordo, The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 358 pages, $25). The contemporary system of self-control blends with its multitude of goods
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Bulworth or Ishtar

Written by David Corn on September 1, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Warren Beatty is waiting for a callback. Two weeks ago, syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington asked Beatty if he might consider reprising his most recent cinematic role–in which he played a senator who becomes so fed up with the money-tainted political system that he begins rapping the truth–but this time in real life. Beatty’s film Bulworth
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Various Mags, Rags & Definitions of “Integrity”

Written by John Strausbaugh on September 1, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

I’ve had one of those weeks where I was too scattered and agitated to sit down with a book. But I’m like you, if I don’t read I die, so I spent the week grazing a lot of papers, magazines and Web writing. I did start one book, but it was beginning to annoy me
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Just Passing Through

Written by Jim Knipfel on September 1, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

By the time I get back home, whether it’s an hour later or 15 minutes, those same crushing walls welcome me like a warm hug. I live in a very pleasant neighborhood in Brooklyn. I don’t deny that–when I first moved here all those years ago, I made a conscious decision that I no longer
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The Recycled City

Written by Lionel Tiger on September 1, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

McLuhan’s influential gift was to unite a theoretical literary imagination about the impact of different kinds of communication with the practical ongoing pattern of North American life. He sustained an open nonelitist mind about different media. No intello-snob, he was a critic who was, however, never meanly critical. Like a Mobius strip he moved in
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Caravaggio, the All-Purpose Modern

Written by Christian Viveros-Faune on September 1, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

We have, as the age demands, Caravaggios for every tribe and taste. There is the genius Caravaggio, following in the line of great painters like Michelangelo and Giorgione; Caravaggio the vanguardist, age-old prototype for Picasso and Pollock; a Marxist Caravaggio, faithful recorder of the dirty fingernails of the people; the fashionably queer Caravaggio, a gender-bending
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Bush Weathers his First Stumble

Written by Russ Smith on September 1, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Bush Weathers his First Stumble As I’ve written for the past year, unless Gov. George W. Bush is eaten by a bear in the next 15 months–polar, black or brown, Mr. Mfume–he will be the next president of the United States. There will be no coronation, most likely no electoral landslide, as the most naive
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Hill of Coke

Written by Christopher Caldwell on September 1, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

This, in turn, led to the rampant building of thousands of pseudo-adobe structures of brown-painted concrete, every last one of which seems dedicated to selling “authentic” pieces of Santa Fe history and culture. The result is the very Emerald City of bogosity. It’s what you’d get if you took the one street in a small
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Ted Rall’s Revenge, Part II

Written by Andrey Slivka on September 1, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

As I wrote last week (“Ted Rall’s Bawls,” 8/18), Rall had initiated litigation against Hellman in the wake of the e-mail prank that Hellman, a well-known jokester, played on him after his controversial Village Voice article attacking comics-world powerbroker Art Spiegelman. Rall claimed that the prank–which involved a satirically self-aggrandizing letter entitled “Ted Rall’s
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Hillary’s “Inoculation” in Talk

Written by John Ellis on August 25, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

As “inoculations” go, Hillary Clinton’s interview was reasonably successful, at least for the time being. She not only addressed the issue of her husband’s infidelity and dishonesty, she managed to do so in a way that placed it (and her role in it) firmly in the past. Even more remarkable, she did so in a
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