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From: draskovi@usc.edu (Zoran Draskovic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Serbian "The Professional" in San Francisco
Date: 23 Jul 1992 00:37:14 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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    Dusan Kovacevic's play "Profesionalac" is playing, in English
    translation, in San Francisco through August 2. Here's excerpts
    from a review in the SF Chronicle on July 18:

                                   * * *

    A YUGOSLAVIAN GEM SNEAKS INTO NORTH BEACH THEATER

    Don't let the unlikely location in a warren of tourist restaurants
    and ceramic figurine shops put you off. The North Beach Repertory
    Theatre's 64-seat niche on the third floor of the Cannery is
    currently playing host to one of the most engaging new plays
    produced locally in recent memory.
         "The Professional," by Dusan Kovacevic, is newsworthy merely
    for taking place at all.  In a translation and adaptation by
    Phoenix-based Yugoslav emigre Bob Djurdjevic, this Upstart Stage
    production marks the English language premiere for a Serbian
    playwright well known in his own troubled country.  Kovacevic, who
    hoped to attend his American debut, was refused a visa by the U.S.
    government.
         "The Professional," an ingenious, resonant and soulful comedy
    about the Communist meltdown in Eastern Europe, speaks eloquently
    for him in his absence....
         "The Professional" offers a bleakly comic and poignant
    picture of the ways in which people adapt, haplessly and
    heroically, in the grip of institutionalized oppression.  In its
    fanciful yet oddly plausible scenario of a secret police who end
    up preserving the very ideas they sought to destroy, it's also
    strangely hopeful.
         The action takes some bittersweet turns, and "The
    Professional" closes with a flourish that gives the 90-minute
    evening a rounded sense of completion.  Satisfying as they are,
    the play's final notes are full of rich overtones that go on
    ringing long after the final curtain. Bravo to Upstart Stage, the
    East Bay company that gives new plays a first voice in staged
    readings and occasional full productions, for putting Kovacevic's
    name on the theatrical map here first.
         "The Professional" continues at the North Beach Rep through
    August 2, with a possible extension.  A subsequent production in
    London is in the works.

                                   * * *
    Play runs Thursdays through Sundays at 8:00 pm.Tickets are $12.50
    on Thursdays and Sundays, $15 on Fridays and Saturdays.They can be
    bought at the door, advance tickets by mail only.More info- from
    Upstart Stage at (510)527-3123.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: lieser@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Ed Lieser)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Something Wicked THis Way Comes
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:24:45 EST
Organization: Test PLease ignore

In article <1992Jul30.043400.29084@reed.edu>, orpheus@reed.edu (P. Hawthorne) writes:

>   Let's have an honest and effective campaign against poverty, let's bring
> back the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Agency! We
> could fund them by streamlining other social services and merging them with
> those agencies, and bringing the defense budget back down to $275 billion.

To me, we in the U.S. have lost any real sense of community.  When a person
who is not so wealthy suddenly becomes so, I think *in general* what they
want to do is immediately separate themselves from "the rest of the pack".
They buy lots of nice material things and figure "I've got my piece of the
pie -- to hell with everyone else."  This is obviously a generalization,
but we are such a materialistic society in which a BMW, a big house in
the suburbs, or numerous lovers is supposedly a sign of success.  And
when the "little people" are given help, it's always in a very patronizing
way (e.g. most current social programs).

Also, it seems that few people stop to look at the so-called "signs of
success" and question whether these things would really enrich their lives
or not.  Despite some of the excesses of the 60's, I think that some of
the ideas of that time could temper the greed-fest that I see around me
far too often nowadays.  (No, I'm not anti-capitalistic :) )

Ed
From: higham@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Capital of Delaware
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:46:03 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand


Sorry to waste bandwidth on a trivial issue, but I am having an argument
involving the capital of the state of Delaware. Can somebody mail me and put it
right. Is it Dover or Wilmington? Also, where is the DuPont company located in
these two places. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Could you e-mail me
with the answer.
-- 
Tom Higham,		        "If ever somethin' don't feel right to you,     
Radiocarbon Dating Lab,	        remember what Pancho said to the Cisco Kid:
University of Waikato,	        'Let's went, before we are dancing at the
Hamilton,		        end of a rope, without music.'"  
NEW ZEALAND.		                   Sailor Ripley, "wild at heart".
Higham@waikato.ac.nz
From: harrity@sumax.seattleu.edu (Elan Morin Tedronai)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Moral Infallibility of U.S.
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:56:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: sumax.4776
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA

In article <1992Jul22.220343.14190@nlm.nih.gov> beatty@nlm.nih.gov writes:

>You can use the handy and "obvious" rule that many Canadians (and quite
>a few Europeans and Australians as well) use:
>
>We (the Americans) are always the "bad guys".  Whomever we might be in
>conflict with, for whatever reason, are the "good guys".
                                              ^^^^^^^^^
No, now get it right. They're always the _victims_ of American
foreign policy, which is always, always self-centered and arrogant.
Oh, and don't forget how we're _always_ nosing about "other people's"
business.  Gah.

Daniel John Kelly-Harrity ---------| |--------- "Sooner spit in a 
Seattle University ----------------| |---------  Wolf's Eye,
Seattle, Washington ---------------| |---------  than cross an
USA 98122 -------------------------| |---------  Aes Sedai."

          "If it's not Scottish, It's *crap*!"
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: chungdan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Zhong Qi Iao (Daniel))
Subject: [transport] please carpool for the earth's sake
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 20:50:15 GMT



     For the heavily dependant on one high-consumption aspect,
driving alone to work, please read "sci.environment".  There are
a lot of discussions of carpooling, and train and bus.

					Daniel Chung, U.S.A.
From: gledbet@heartland.bradley.edu (Gene Ledbetter)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re:  After Perot
Date: 21 Jul 1992 17:40:11 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Reply-To: gledbet@heartland.bradley.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu



From Guido Schaefer at the Wirtschaftsuniversitaet in Wien:

> Ross Perot has left the race for the presidental election-
> how has this changed the chances of the two remaining
> candidates?

No one seems to know yet.  To a considerable degree, U.S. 
presidential elections seem to be popularity tests.  In two 
weeks Perot (What was his first name?) may be all but 
forgotten.  During the course of an election campaign, the 
polls can show wide swings in popularity that probably have 
little to do with the political or economic philosophy of 
the voters.  This year mud-slinging may be very important -- 
the candidate whose closet contains the fewest (exposed) 
skeletons wins!

I'm interested to see that Guido is at the Wirtschafts=
universitaet.  In a second posting, I should like to ask him
about U.S. inflation vs. unemployment and the Austrian school
of economics, which had some following in the U.S. at the end
of the Carter administration.  Vertig, Guido?

--
And when all was peace and order   Much I wept because my warder
Save one planet nailed askew,      Would not let me set it true.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Nightmare: A Nuclear War......
From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:06:49 EST
Followup-To: talk.politics.misc
Organization: Demonic Possesions, Inc.

In article <18172.2a77cc01@ecs.umass.edu>, vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu writes:
> 	Though the Republicans and media(ha!!) praise the Foreign Policy of 
> Prez. Bush, his achievements are not commendable.  I do not want to present
> a list here.  Apparently, Prez. Bush claims that he is the  champion of the
> so called Cold War (Neither CIA nor Mr Bush was  aware of a possible 'coup'
> which flipped the things up side down).  He says  that the  American people 
> can go to bed without any fear about a possible nuclear war now.  I am won-
> dering how many Americans went to bed with that fear before the collapse of
> 
> Vicky:

	You might investigate the group talk.politics.misc or alt.dreams.

Brett                                                      
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From: crosmun@mickey.rtp.dg.com (William Crosmun)
Subject: Re: From a foreign student on Clinton
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 16:31:38 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation, RTP, NC.

In article <1992Jul20.174356.8524@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> lieser@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Ed Lieser) writes:
>In article <1992Jul18.184556.24959@menudo.uh.edu>, mece1e3@Jane.UH.EDU (Arindam Ghosh) writes:
>
>> Gore summed it up well, when he said:
>> 
>> "This election is not about Repulblicans and Democrats, this election is not
>> even about winning; though we will win it; this election is about change."
>
>But we Americans hear these same words every 4 years: change, new vision, new
>ideas, blah blah blah....  For some odd reason, I tend to not believe this
>kind of talk very much.  :-)
>
> [ other stuff deleted ]
>
>>Arindam
>
>Ed


You're right.  Every four years, and even every two years, we hear about how
America needs a change, a new vision; how the one candidate is evil incarnate
while the other is a paragon of virue.  When it's all over nothing much
changes.  If the truth be told, there is nothing in this country that
desperately needs changing.  The Congress could take a four year recess, the
President a four year vacation, the wheels of government would grind away,
we'd still get up in the morning and go to bed at night.  We'd even have
time to adjust ourselves to the laws without having to deal with new ones,
adjust to the tax code without having to guess what it will be tomorrow.
Sounds like a good idea to me; a four year vacation for all legislators
(including regulatory agencies) would give be a nice change.


===============================================================================
William Crosmun
crosmun@dg-rtp.dg.com

===============================================================================
It can't be won, the way the game is run
but if you choose to stay, you wind up playing anyway.

		"On the Boulevard" -- Jackson Browne

===============================================================================
"As to guaranteeing bank deposits, the minute the government starts to do that
... the  government  runs  into a  probable loss.  We  do not wish to make the 
United  States Government liable  for the  mistakes and  errors of  individual
banks, and put a premium on sound banking in the future."
                                      Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)
===============================================================================

Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern)
Subject: Re: Olympics
Organization: NCAR/UCAR
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:29:46 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.162533.10590@u.washington.edu>, cbrand@cac.washington.edu (Carol Brand) writes:
 > >In article <1992Jul28.065005.29440@morrow.stanford.edu> silva@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Holly Silva) writes:
 > >>
 > >>	Is there anyone else who finds NBC's coverage of the Olympics
 > >>to be generally vile, over-focussed on the gold and demeaning to the
 > >>athletes?  The network promotes an ugly, whining jingoism and a Geraldo
 > >>-outlook on the event that should make it the butt of both jokes and
 > >>criticism, but no one seems to notice.
 > >
 > 
 > I don't mind the "over-focussed on gold" aspect of the games; after
 > all, I'm watching the Olympics to see world class competition and I want
 > to see the winners!  The problem is, I don't see the winners, I see
 > the Americans.
 > 
 > Did anyone watch the women's cycling road race?  There was a major
 > upset by an Australian.  Did we get to hear her thoughts in a post
 > race interview? NOOOOOO  We got to hear from the American who came in
 > 7th (?).

And we didn't even get to hear from *her* until after listening to three
in-depth profiles, Dick Enberg's Maudlin Moronic Moments, "your local
news," and umpteen commercials.  If they tried to do the same sort of
show for a basketball or football game, they'd be getting letter bombs.

 > How about interviewing the 13 year old platform diver from China who
 > spanked the rest of the competition.  No I guess we would rather hear
 > from the 3rd place American.

The "official" Olympics network (NBC in this case) shows only the winners
and the Americans.  I watched some of TNT's Winter Olympics coverage this
year when I was home sick and could watch it during the day.  I saw the
last-place ice skaters, the ok skiers, and the lugers that were neither
favored to win, or so bad they were Olympic in-jokes.  I really enjoyed
this!  Especially in a sport where quality is subjective (ice skating,
gymnastics, diving) it helped me understand just what the difference is
between a 6.0 routine and a 4.5 routine.  When all you see are the best,
you just can't appreciate the skill and difficulty involved, I think.

Ilana

PS Carol, I really will send you that email soon! :-)
-- 
/\        Ilana Stern DoD#009 | Whoever first said, "Things are seldom as they 
  \_][    ilana@ncar.ucar.edu | seem," was wrong.  Things are usually as they
      \_______________________| seem.  Otherwise, they wouldn't seem that way.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: cbrand@cac.washington.edu (Carol Brand)
Subject: Re: Olympics
Organization: UW Networks and Distributed Computing
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:25:33 GMT

>In article <1992Jul28.065005.29440@morrow.stanford.edu> silva@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Holly Silva) writes:
>>
>>	Is there anyone else who finds NBC's coverage of the Olympics
>>to be generally vile, over-focussed on the gold and demeaning to the
>>athletes?  The network promotes an ugly, whining jingoism and a Geraldo
>>-outlook on the event that should make it the butt of both jokes and
>>criticism, but no one seems to notice.
>

I don't mind the "over-focussed on gold" aspect of the games; after
all, I'm watching the Olympics to see world class competition and I want
to see the winners!  The problem is, I don't see the winners, I see
the Americans.

Did anyone watch the women's cycling road race?  There was a major
upset by an Australian.  Did we get to hear her thoughts in a post
race interview? NOOOOOO  We got to hear from the American who came in
7th (?).

How about interviewing the 13 year old platform diver from China who
spanked the rest of the competition.  No I guess we would rather hear
from the 3rd place American.

And what gives with the music video?  If I wanted M-TV I would watch it!

Did anyone out there spend the money and get the pay for view cable
channel?  How is the coverage?  

-Carol
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: TV...or not TV that is the question.
From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
Date: 21 Jul 92 00:20:38 EST
Organization: Demonic Possesions, Inc.

	How much TV do people watch?  What kinds of shows?

	Currently I watch about 1 hour per week.  Usually a sit-com with my
wife.

	Back when I had cable (slobber, drool) I used to watch about 60 hours
per week, mostly CNN, Discovery, and A&E.  Some Learning Channel and ESPN.

	Soon, I will have satellite capability... :D

	Usually passed off as mindless entertainment, I find many, many hours
of educational and technological programs.  Plus news (World Report is
excellent for getting other-than-US news), etc.

	Are there any others who watch TV for other than "entertainment"?

Brett                                                      
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From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,talk.bizarre
Subject: Why American business is doomed to fail.
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:18:17 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.usa,misc.test,talk.bizarre
Organization: Monterey Bay Yacht Club, Monterey CA

This was an exercise in futility I was part of this morning and while it
is totally insignificant in and of itself, I believe it reflects in
microcosm the root of the problems with American business.

There is a Pepsi-Cola vending machine where I work. It offers eight
selections: 2 Pepsi-Cola, 2 Diet Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Diet Dr. Pepper,
lemon-lime Slice, and diet lemon-lime Slice.

Now I have read that American tastes in soft drinks are changing with
the renewed emphasis on health and fitness, but I think this can best be
illustrated by observing the consumption of soft drinks from this single
machine. 50% of the storage capacity of this machine is dedicated to
diet sodas which sell out within three days on average. The other 50% is
dedicated to regular sodas, none of which sells out within 2 weeks.

Now, when the diet soda is sold out you might think that the customers
will just drink the regular soda but this is not what happens. The
motivation is now present for people to buy soda by the six pack (on
average 30% cheaper) from a retailer and keep it in a refrigerator and
this is, in fact, what happens.

So, in comes the person to refill the machine. I engage him in
conversation, describe to him the situation, and attempt to explain
reallocation of resources. 

What do I get for my trouble?

A blank stare and a "well that's the way we do it".

So what we have here is uninterested and unmotivated workers, blatant
disregard of changing market conditions, and a lack of communication
between labor and management. 

American business in microcosm. QED.

Pepsi-Cola, Diet Pepsi-Cola, and Slice are registered trademarks of
Pepsico, Inc.
Dr. Pepper and Diet Dr. Pepper are registered trademarks of the Dr.
Pepper Co.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Where is the "Bible Belt"?
Date: 21 Jul 92 17:10:35 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: SPSS Inc.

morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:

>An interesting aside: the Clinton/Gore ticket is the first all-Southern
>Baptist ticket in US history.  I would expect an interesting debate when
>Clinton's pro-choice position runs up against the conservative Southern
>Baptist pro-life stand.

Clinton & Gore appear to be from the moderate 'wing' of the Southern
Baptist Convention.  Clinton's view appears to be 'anti-abortion,
pro-choice' which is a fairly easily supported Biblican view.  SBC
conservatives will, of course, disagree.

The more interesting question has to do with voting.  Will Southern
Baptists vote as a bloc for Clinton/Gore?  Doubtful.  Conservatives will
likely vote for Bush, because of the believed 'pro-family' stance of Bush.
Modeates will likely vote for Clinton.

BTW, I say believed 'pro-family' stance, since I suspect that once ol'
George is reelected, you can kiss any sops to the Right goodbye.  Bush will
likely revert to his pre-1980 stance of pro-choice, pro-population growth.
Heck, Paul Erlich PRAISED Geroge Bush when he was a congresman for exactly
this reason.  (Don't believe me?  Look at p86 of 'The Population Bomb')

 -Steve
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From: chuan@milton.u.washington.edu (Chuan "infamous" Lee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Something Wicked THis Way Comes
Date: 25 Jul 92 00:56:27 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <92Jul24.092426edt.47891@neat.cs.toronto.edu> mgreen@cs.toronto.edu (Marc Green) writes:
>The Reagan/Bush administrations have spent several trillion dollars on
>social programs. That's enough compassion and caring for the poor.
[...]
>Again, don't let facts get in the way. The US has the strictest
>anti-pollution and species protection legislation in the world. Bush
>wisely refused to sign a treaty which would have required the US to
>give away huge and unpsecified sums to the Third World.
[...]
>It was the arms race that spent the Soviets into submission and freed
>the peoples of Eastern Europe. It was not wasted money. 
[...]
>Guess what Bunky - it is the democratic congress which is the major
>roadblock to defense spending. Bush wanted to kill the Stealth bomber,
>and several other major weapons programs but was blocked by
>_democratic_ congressmen whose districts would have suffered job
>losses. The democrats talk a good game - as long as it's some elses
>money.
>
>Marc Green 
>Trent University

Bravo!  I'll say let's vote the Dems. out of the Congress and have
this country moving again.

Sure enough, the economy is in bad shape (I do hope it will get
better by the time I get out of college in a few months).  But I
take a more optimistic view toward the situation.  This is a
rare opportunity to convert this country from intensive defense
job market to lesser one.  I believe the economy will become
healthier that way.

We don't need any more social programs.  We need jobs.  As
Dan Quayle once said, "McDonald is hiring!"  (hey, someone
finally quoted him in a positive sense.)  I feel alot better
knowing that many more people can affort to eat out than
that many have their welfare checks sitting in their mailboxes.

Say it once more, Dan.

Chuan Lee
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From: PFK@UMUC.BITNET (Pikaifhs Tsoutsounoleixoudhs)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.greek
Subject: Test 12 !
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:56:36 GMT
Organization: University of Southern Pikaifornia.


    Test apo ton Pikaifh ton ... Tsoutsounoleixoudh !!!