European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 columns the stars and stripes thursday. November 21, 1985 today s crossword every Corner in . Has a Story Lori . Bakkum York crossing fifth a clue it he Street the Oiler d.i\. I was saddened to discover that the i Pirc building was gone. In did i Surprise me. In Manhattan buildings Brief life one a they Are there next a the Aren t. It pro Babu has something to do with a provision in the tax Law it is remarkable How Many irrational things occur these because strange provisions in the lax Law make in profitable to engage in irrational . In inc fraction of an instant during which i glanced up and saw thai the Umpire state building was gone an astonishing succession of emotions and thought raced across in mind. These c to b _ in in coherent sentences to i allows. No. I. I am going to miss no.2. In was so Beautiful thai in s a wonder no one loved it enough to put up a fight to keep nov who could t they have taken Down the world Trade Center instead no.4. What s wrong with me mentally and emotionally i m carrying on like inc worst kind of extreme environmentalist no.5. In t the Correct phrase environmental extremist no.6. I Don t think the landscape rapists have settled on inc definitive abusive term cd. The other Day i read an article b one of them denouncing environmental elitists " no.7. In any Case i Don t want to catch myself carrying on like those knee Jerk preservationists who go around arguing that ugliness is too High a Price to pay for a multimillion Dollar Windfall do i . You bet i Don l. I want to be respected in this no.9. And it s a Tough own baby. New York is a Lough town and in Tough towns they Don t cry when Lovely old buildings go because they know that just As you have to break a few eggs to make an Omelette you have to Knock Down a few Lovely old buildings to make a zillion no. 10. Sure in s a Lough town but there arc a Mil lion stories on every Street Corner and most of them arc stories of love and kindness and no. 11. Don l Start carrying on like the worst kind of extreme no 12 "1 think the birr vat phrase is knee Jerk sen i . 3. There is no such word As . "1 wonder Why. If there is such a word As rationalist and there is there must surely be such a word As i rationalist therefore w h nol Narr Ilio Nalimu t no.15. Who cares 1 in thinking of in rationalism Only because this sadness about the Umpire state build ing reminds me that it was probably removed because of some curious provision in the tax Law that makes irrational behaviour like disposing of the Limpic state build ing no.16. In Short the b nip re state building has been done in by in rationalists no. 17. Also tax no.18. Who i dare say will Clear Many a Cool million As a result of the disappearance. Did i Sec that Story about the corporate raiding of he Rovton conglomerate in which everybody cleaned up especially lawyers and possibly even the lawyer for the losing team who is asking for $25 million no.19. As a matter of fact i did Sec that Story and i realized then Why 1 will never be Lough enough to thrive in a Tough town even though it docs have a million stories on every Street Corner including Many stories of love no.20. Get on with no.2l. Ill never be Tough enough to make it in new York because if i were a lawyer i d be too soft to ask for $25 million for losing a Al this Point having progressed a few Yards West Ward on 42nd Street i glanced up again and discovered that the Empire state building was t gone after All. Somebody had reeled an extremely High Barrier in the nature of a new building on fifth Avenue just South of the Public Library and this hid the Empire state build ing from View if you happened to be looking South. I assume the City authorities arc embarrassed by the Empire state building and arc encouraging builders to Wall it off from Public View. Or maybe architects and builders Are embarrassed. That s understandable. Standing there As a constant reminder that a skyscraper does t have to be just another big arrogant dim witted Glass bore it must be a terrible reproach to everybody building the new Manhattan. C new York times Matching the soviets futz for futz by Art Buchwald Washington president Reagan upped the Ante before the Summit with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev by suggesting it was Lime to Stop futzing when Gorbachev read the quote he called in his Kremlin advisers. What does Cut ing mean he asked them. I Don t know his foreign minister said. We be asked the White House to clarify in. Here is their reply Don l play dumb. You do in All the Lime " Gorbachev was furious. The president knows we Don t know. Why would he Send us a message we Don t understand can t anyone in our embassy in washing ton find out what in Means our ambassador advises us fut ing has to do with put Ting our medium Range missiles along the och a soviet marshal said. He s mistaken. It refers to the buildup of conventional forces in Poland. The americans arc saying they want us to pull them out or they will you re both wrong the Kab director said. Ful ing is another word for defecting. Reagan could t be Lieve it when our Man after defecting turned around and Rudet Eclid to us. We Cut cd the Cia and he presi Dent did t like Gorbachev said you All Nave theories but you Don t have facts. How can i far. Reagan in gone a when i have no idea what he is talking about the general Secretary s scientific adviser said my people have studied the message and conclude it has to do with Star wars Reagan was talking about the shield the . Plans to build to prevent our missiles from hitting them Gorbachev declared what is my response if he tells me in Geneva to Stop fusing around you Tell him you la be glad to when he stops futzing around with Star wars and not a minute Gorbachev was gelling impatient. We can t speculate. We have to find out a Secretary came into the room and handed a Cable to the Kab director whose eyes almost popped Oul of his head. Our language experts have tracked Down the word. It s yiddish and Means tooling around or nol being serious " you re Craz. What is Ronald Reagan doing speak ing yiddish the foreign minister said. In makes you wonder Gorbachev mused. Find out what his name was before he changed it to yes sir the Kab director said. 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