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NORTH KOREA'S DECLARATION OF A STATE OF "SEMI-war" last Monday seemed like one more propaganda rant, triggered by joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises. A few days later, Pyongyang raised the stakes when it announced that it was pulling out of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. The decision was a response to growing pressure by the International Atomic Energy Agency to force inspection of two secret sites where Western intelligence officials believe evidence of nuclear weapons materials may be located. By withdrawing from the treaty, the Kim Il Sung regime removed the legal basis for the "special inspection" threatened...
...White House is convinced that the November election will be a three-way battle in which core conservatives will determine the outcome (and so is now suddenly urging a continuation of the "Reagan-Bush partnership"). But because of what two G.O.P. Administrations have failed to do, Quayle's calculated rant rings hollow and deserves little more than a bemused shake of the head...
Mainly it is women who object, for due to the prevalence of their mystery- religions, the men are off in the woods, affirming their manhood by sniffing one another's armpits and listening to third-rate poets rant about the moist, hairy satyr that lives inside each one of them. Meanwhile, artists vacillate between a largely self-indulgent expressiveness and a mainly impotent politicization, and the contest between education and TV -- between argument and persuasion by spectacle -- has been won by TV, a medium now more debased in America than ever before, and more abjectly self-censoring than anywhere...
...Wall Street should be assumed guilty and sentenced to do community service as a pre-penalty. I can't emphasize it enough. Take your next class of M.B.A.s coming in the door of Salomon Brothers and sentence them. N.A.A.C.P. interest you? B'nai B'rith? You want to rant and rave for Act Up? Go, be a part of a community. I've seen it work. It's the only antidote for narcissism. Be an Indian, not a chief. Lose your identity in a group. The healthiest people have that commitment...
...stretching the play to film size, a few things snap. The communal intimacy of live theater, for one; at first the piece sounds more like a rant from across the street than like the compassionate campfire chat it was. But as Search for Signs reaches its climax, artist and author stride over these nettles. If this isn't a goose-bump experience for you, you're just not sentient...