Jed Perl, in The New Republic
The Best Art
(Oct. 19, 1992), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C.20036,
Is Out of Sight
Serious American artists today are in despair- though not over Senator Jesse Helms's (R.-N.C.) attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts. Rather, asserts Perl, author of Gallery Going: Four Seasons in the Art World (1991), their desperation results from the "near total collapse" of the "support system of galleries and grants and collectors and curators and...
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"The Art Nobody Knows" Jed Perl, in The New Republic
The Best Art
(Oct. 19, 1992), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C.20036,
Is Out of Sight
Serious American artists today are in despair- though not over Senator Jesse Helms's (R.-N.C.) attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts. Rather, asserts Perl, author of Gallery Going: Four Seasons in the Art World (1991), their desperation results from the "near total collapse" of the "support system of galleries and...
the Iraqis, Iraq's the coalition. . . ," Lewis observes, "the price of oil actually fell." The power of the oil weapon is not likely to be restored, in his view. Not only are other sources of oil being found and developed, nota- bly in the former Soviet republics, but oil's environmental and political drawbacks have spurred the search for other fuels. Oil produc- ers realize that using their black gold as a weapon will only hasten the day when it will be superseded as an energy source.
Even...
Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
"Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States."
Inst. of Medicine, National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20418.
294 pp. $34.95.
Editors:Joshua Lederberg, Robert E. Shope, and Stanley C. Oaks, Jr.
During the 1950s, American physicians and public-health officials concluded that progress in medicine and pub- lic health was making the con- quest of infectious i...
Reviews of articles from periodicals and specialized journals here and abroad
. -Reading the LA. Riot
A Survey of Recent Articles
The fires were still smoldering in South-Central Los Angeles last May when the debate about the riot's underlying causes commenced. At the root of the burning and killing and looting of April 29-May 3, 1992, the Bush administration maintained, were the failed Great Society pro- grams of the 1960s. On the contrary, asserts writer Mike Davis in the Nation (June...
Theodore J. Lowi, in The New York Times Magazine (Aug. 23, 1992), 229 W. 43rd St., New York,
N.Y. 10036.
When Ross Perot suddenly called off his ex- traordinary independent presidential campaign last July, his many followers were angry and disappointed. Yet the feisty Texas billionaire, asserts Lowi, a Cornell political scientist, still performed a great national service: His cam- paign (which at this writing may yet be revived) "removed all doubt about the viability of a broad-based third...
Theodore J. Lowi, in The New York Times Magazine (Aug. 23, 1992), 229 W. 43rd St., New York,
N.Y. 10036.
When Ross Perot suddenly called off his ex- traordinary independent presidential campaign last July, his many followers were angry and disappointed. Yet the feisty Texas billionaire, asserts Lowi, a Cornell political scientist, still performed a great national service: His cam- paign (which at this writing may yet be revived) "removed all doubt about the viability of a broad-based third...
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political scientist.
Johnson was at times "a difficult boss," Bar- rett acknowledges. Indeed, according to for- mer White House Press Secretary George Reedy, LBJ was a "miserable" human being- "a bully,-sadist, lout, and egotist." Nevertheless, Barrett- says, Johnson eagerly sought out "an impressive array of advisers" who were not overly deferential. And he cloaked the advisory process in secrecy not just to satisfy the desires of his own psyche...
Charles R. Shrader, in Parameters (Autumn 1992), U.S. Army War College, Carlisle 'Friendly Fire' Barracks, Carlisle, Pa. 17013-5050.
Ofa total of 467 U.S. battle casualties in the Persian Gulf War, nearly one-fourth were caused "friendly fire." Thirty-five U.S. sol- diers were killed by U.S. weapons, and 72 were wounded. While there have been "friendly fire" casualties in all wars, modern weapons have made such losses more likely, according to Shrader, a military historian and...
William Pfaff, in The
Ethnic Nations
New Yorker (Aug. 10, 1992), 20 West 43rd St., New York, N.Y. 10036.
The brutal Serbian exercise in "ethnic cleans- rope and the former Soviet Union since the col- ing" in what was Yugoslavia is only the most lapse of communism. At the root of these con- extreme manifestation of the ethnic conflicts flicts, historian-journalist Pfaff argues, is a that have broken out throughout Eastern Eu- concept of nationality radically different from
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