1. EDITORIAL * * * GUN HO: CHARLETON
HESTON AT THE OK CORRAL
With Sheriff Heston and a posse of millions leading the charge, The National
Rifle Association (NRA) crosses the border and tells Canada to relax its gun
laws.
2. APRIL 30TH SHOULD BE A NATIONAL HOLIDAY - Michael
Moore
No more memorials, no more forgetting: Michael Moore invites his country to
face and honor the truth of America's defeat in Viet Nam.
3. WELCOME TO THE CORPORATE UNIVERSITY - David
McNally
All of a sudden trans-national corporations are competing to fund university
research and development. Are they really interested in your education? Footnotes
supplied by the PINK FLOYD.
4. MERCURY RISING: SUDDENLY SAD FOR FREDDIE -
Rana Bose
They didn’t mean to leave him for dead! But things like this happen
in the Banality Zone, notwithstanding Bose’s attempt to rescue Farook
Frederick Bulsara from obscurity. Farookh who?
5. Patty-Lynne Herlevi interviews PATRICIA ROZEMA
The director of Mansfield Park and I Heard the Mermaids Singing takes us behind
the scenes and catches camera-shy Harold Pinter and other notables with their
pants down.
6. FOUR POEMS - Carmine
Starnino
Starnino's poetry calls attention to itself by daring to compete with philosophy
and theology in the battle over 'the great ideas.'
7. SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS - Dorit
Dornier
Haunted by primitive myths and ancestral pieties, Dornier's art challenges
the 'God is dead' conceit that rules our times.
8. VISIONS OF SAN FRANCISCO - Ken
McGoogan
Memory as after-life. What inner deficiency, what persistence of guilt allows
a man to be enslaved by the dead. McGoogan's fiction is as unsettling as the
ashes of the house we have torched.
9. LEBANON'S MOST DANGEROUS SUMMER - Ghassan
Bishara
The long and winding road to peace prepares for a long and hot summer. And
what ever happened to the 10 commandments?
10. NON-FICTON - Mark
Silverman
A hard days night on the dark side of the moon: a social psychologist looks
back in anger -- and finds himself.
11. POOL OF DEATH - Christopher
D'Cunha
It was the perfect day to play outside. It was the worst day to die.
12. MANIFESTO 2000: PEACE IS IN OUR HANDS - Maya
Khankhoje
We have come a long way since Plato uttered: Silence is a woman's glory. Margaret
Sanger believed that "a free race cannot be born of slave mothers".