The American Spectator

New York Times Book Review

Whilst reviewing Ms. Susan Rubin Suleiman’s latest tome, Professor Perry Meisel deposits still more evidence that as long as the American system of higher education is in place there is no reason for maintaining a system of state insane asylums:

It is something of a commonplace to observe that the conjunction of three trends of thought over the last two decades-feminism, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction-has produced a powerful style of American academic criticism that cannot be ignored….

What Ms. Suleiman is saying at any given time, however, is hard to summarize; her prose reflects the kind of fluid feminist poetics for which she argues thematically. Feminist criticism, it appears, like feminist fiction, must be a kind of writing that refuses the straightforwardness of male writing, including its armory of values such as clarity, concision, and pointedness, all of which can be interpreted as masquerades for the male lust for power, replicating the structure of male sexual pleasure.

(August 5, 1990)

Mother Jones

The scientific mind as it exists among readers of an illustrious journal of the New Age:

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(August 1990)

Deer Park(100% Natural Spring Water)

Schizophrenic cheers and admonitions found on the label of Deer Park bottled water:

Smaller Cap = Less Plastic

Did you notice this bottle has an Eco-Slim cap? This is part of our ongoing effort to reduce our impact on the environment. This bottle and cap contain an average of 20% less plastic than our original 500 mL Eco-Shape bottle and cap. Be Green.

WARNING: Cap is a small part and poses a CHOKING HAZARD, particularly for children.

(Summer 2010)