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...Forbes skirted questions on the controversial subject of abortion by claiming that he wants to "see abortion disappear in America" but refusing to say whether he would support a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion--a measure that has been part of the Republican platform since...
...YOUR REPORT ON THE GATHERING OF conservatives in Miami over the New Year's weekend [POLITICS, Jan. 8], you included a quote from me, to the effect that I had smoked when I was pregnant, as an example of the "outlaw spirit" that prevailed during the weekend. In fact I declared just the opposite: "Of course, I never smoked when I was pregnant." This is an outrage. You announced to the world that I cavalierly exposed my five children to the harmful effects of tobacco while I carried each in my womb. I am disappointed by such sloppy and unprofessional...
...Fascist Italy; a violent farce, Horse Eats Hat, with 74 actors; Marc Blitzstein's folk opera The Cradle Will Rock, which the WPA shut down and Welles reopened the same night, marching his cast and audience from the original Broadway house to another, empty one for the triumphant outlaw premiere. There were riots outside Welles' shows--to get in. His work was denounced by the Communist Party and the Hearst papers, proving he had done something right. Under his spell, theater was not just dynamic; it was dynamite...
...caste. No. 1 was "No group hugs." Nos. 6 and 7 encouraged the wearing of furs and the use of chlorofluorocarbon sprays. Some arrivals could not take the puckish hint that this was a time for public-policy grinds to blow off steam, but others fell right into the outlaw spirit. "I always smoked when I was pregnant," announced G. Gordon Liddy's wife to a companion. A batch of half-looped Young Turks at the bar cheered as the jukebox played the Eagles' Get Over It, a slam against self-discovery: "Bitch about the present and blame...
Drug experts are not surprised. The stimulant known as speed, embraced in the 1970s by outlaw bikers, all-night revelers, exam-bound college students and long-haul truckers, is more popular than ever, with teens and middle-class workers and suburbanites swelling the ranks of users. Meth production is surging in clandestine labs set up by drug syndicates and individual users alike. "It's absolutely epidemic," declares John Coonce, head of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration's meth-lab task force...