The Best of Notable Quotables; December 23, 1991
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 23, 1991
- Gomer Pyle Award
- Peter Arnett Award
- Iron Curtain Award
- Gulf War
- Media Hero Award
- Willie Horton Award
- Damn Conservatives
- Armand Hammer Award
- Real Reagan Legacy
- Long Dong Silver Award
- Thurgood Marshall Award
- Borking Award
- Wilson-Weicker Award
- Which Way Is It?
- Silliest Analysis
- Quote of the Year
- 1991 Award Judges
Award for the Silliest Analysis
“The
earth is home, and all its refugees, its homeless, sometimes seem a
sort of advance guard of apocalypse. They represent a principle of
disintegration – the fate of homelessness generalized to a planetary
scale....The flesh is home: African nomads without houses decorate their
faces and bodies instead. The skull is home. We fly in and out of it on
mental errands. The highly developed spirit becomes a citizen of its
own mobility, for home has been internalized and travels with the
homeowner. Home, thus transformed: is freedom. Everywhere you hang your
hat is home. Home is the bright light under the hat.”
– Time “Essay” by Senior Writer Lance Morrow, December 24, 1990.
Runners-up:
“Politicians
led a victory parade of ga-ga worship, with people hugging tanks that
have vacuumed billions from social programs. The Supreme Court ordered
family planning centers to help keep women barefoot and pregnant by not
telling poor women about abortion, while Congress refuses to appropriate
enough funds to feed poor children. And the President says his big-deal
domestic programs are highways and executions. Meanwhile, the S&L
and banking fiascos flash around the country Willie Horton-style, raping
not only women but men and children yet unborn.”
– USA Today “Inquiry”
Editor Barbara Reynolds, June 14.
“Oh say, we’ve seen too much.
The Star-Spangled Banner pushes like a cough through America’s mouth and
the twilight’s last gleaming is just that, a sickly flash above our
heads as we ride unsuspecting in the bellies of sleek trains, plop to
our knees in churches, embracing truths that disgust us.”
– Boston Globe
arts critic and “poet” Patricia Smith in The Nation's “Patriotism”
issue, July 15/22.
Can Lawns Be Justified?
Awash in fertilizers and pesticides, they may be a hazard to homeowners – and children, pets and neighbors
– Time, June 3
