European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2what to watch when wrestling with a new world John head Cox news service the Barber shop i go to every two weeks or so always has the television going on saturday mornings. And the to is always tuned to professional wrestling. Thank goodness for that. Otherwise id miss out on important world events and social trends. Allow me to explain. This world is so overwhelmed by information that the currency called knowledge has been devalued As often As the mexican peso. People wonder if anything is Worth knowing any torn. My search for a painless Way to keep informed has taken me to the mat. In be found that professional wrestling is More than Hammerlock and Sleeper holds Texas grudge matches and Hulka mania it is truly a window on the world. For example there is a a a russian wrestler who a had been a bad Guy for years. Fans would boo at the mention of his name. He has become a Good Guy. A a a during a recent wrestling show he stood in the. Middle of the ring holding up soviet and amen can flags while a pack of boy scouts led the Crow in the pledge of allegiance. The fans gave the russian a standing ovation. That show i Learned the cold War w As really Over. Then there is the matter of Black wrestlers. I. Remember when there were none in the South. When they started to appear it often  walking racial stereotypes. Things arc different now. It seems a lot of Black wrestlers arc following Michael Jackson s exam pie and becoming crossover acts with a Van a canc. There arc times when skin color seems to be the Only thing that distinguishes them from other grapplers. In fact one of the a blackest wrestlers around today is one Dusty Rhodes a the american  the Guy is White but he talks Blacker than Black. That is How pro wrestling confirmed for me that some segments of american society have moved beyond racial tolerance to casual acceptance of a blurring of the once rigid racial lines. Finally in be Learned something from the Way wrestlers look these Days. It used to be that the bodies that stepped into the ring for the saturday night cards Down at the City auditorium featured enough spare tires to outfit an 18-wheelcr. Any talk of an awesome physique was in reference to the likes of Haystack Calhou whose favorite tactic was to haul his 400-plus-Pound body up to the to of the ropes and jump Down on his hapless opponent. These Days wrestlers generally look and act like bodybuilders. They flex their Muscles and. Preen before the cameras. They Call themselves Jesse a the body Ventura and a a ravishing Rick rude. They love themselves and their fans love them for it. This alerted me to the fact that society a health and fitness consciousness has drifted into the shallow water of narcissism. Lets face it. The world is changing too fast. Our attention Span is too Short. We be squeezed to commercials Down to 15 seconds. Pm body. De Cidad that three minutes was too Long to wait for Oatmeal on a Winter morning and came up with. Microwave Oatmeal. So done to waste your time watching �?o60 min it Csc or a a Mancil Lehrer trying to figure out what matters among a zillion current events. Do what i do. Climb up in that Barber s chair ask for a Light trim and watch  the Rise of Malcolm x is part of the first instalment in a series on the civil rights struggles of Black americans timed for Black history month. Page 10. To plus is a weekly supplement of the stars and stripes. Editors John Taylor Sarah Bottorff Art director Sharon Killay production Lisa Williams Denise Adams editorial assistance Louis Picicc Marian Hamilto cover Quot eve of destruction a is about what else a deadly female robot. 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