VOL 10 NO. 1 SPRING 1988 S T A F F C o pub l ishe rs Julie Ristau, Lenny Dee Editorial Board Lenny Dee, Diane Hellekson, David Morris, Julie Ristau, Karen Starr, Charlie Sugnet, Kate Sullivan, Jay Walljasper Pacific Northwest Editor David Milholland Art Direction Kate Hunt, Lenny Dee Designers Julie Baugnet, Carol Evans-Smith, Chris Fieber, Connie Gilbert, Gail Swanlund, Eric Walljasper Contributing Artists Ta-eoumba T. Aiken, Ricardo Block, John Callahan, Margaret Chados-lrvine, Mary Conway, Chris Fieber, L. K. Hanson, Curtis Hoard, Kate Hunt, Constance A. Lowe, David Madzo, Stuart Mead, Jean Murakami, Musicmaster, Isaac Shamsud-Din, Cecil Skotnes Production Consultants Mark Simonson, Gail Swanlund Cover Design Connie Gilbert Proofreaders Ann Laughlin, Olivia Lundeen, Carol Salmon Account Representatives Dale Shifter, Kate Sullivan Ad Production Eugene Collins, Pat McCarty Typesetting Paf McCarty, Mary Walstrom Cover Photographer Gus Gustafson Spiritual Advisor Camille Gage Thanks to thee Emily Anderson, Tom Barry, Joel Bassin, Jennifer Gage, Jim Hare, Ann Marsden, David Madson, Nicole Niemi, Musicmaster, Paul Petrella, Margaret Vaillencourt, Mary Westerman, Cynthia Williams, Mike Tronnes, Betsy Kieter, Amy Sundberg, Mona Toft ON THE COVER Artist David Madzo is a St. Paul native whose work has shown extensively throughout the Upper Midwest. In 1987 he won a Bush Foundation Fellowship. He is represented by Thomas Barry Fine Arts. This is a self portrait. The Twin Cities edition is published by the Clinton St. Quarterly, 3255 Hennepin Ave. S., Suite 255, Minneapolis, MN 55408—(612) 823-2103. Unless otherwise noted, all contents copyright ©1988 Clinton St. Quarterly. We encourage your comments, articles and art. All material should be accompanied by a selfaddressed, stamped envelope. 4 What Am I Left with After All —Julie Landsman Setbacks and triumphs during the school year of one Twin Cities high school teacher and her students. 7 The Way I t ’s Suppose To Be —George McKenna III A blueprint for turning a blackboard jungle into a model of excellence. Wonders of the Midwest— L.K. Hanson An amusement park in our future?! Another and yet another roadside attraction. W H Y T H I S M A G A Z I N E NS in tr e e e y t ea Q rs u a a rt g e o r ly t h w e as C li b n o to rn n amidst the cosmic wonder of a total solar eclipse in Oregon’s Cascade mountain range. As rubies and emeralds danced off the sun, a small band of people associated with Portland’s experimental Clinton Street Moviehouse dedicated themselves to a sparkling presentation of uncompromising wisdom in journalism, fiction, and art. The CSQ has unveiled fresh new perspectives in many matters four times a year in Portland since then, and a separate Seattle edition has been published for five years. The genesis of an independent Twin Cities edition is more prosaic Beulah —Olivia Lundeen Behind the pleasant facade of a small Minnesota town. Buntu and I—The Death of a Son—Njebulo S. Ndebele A personal look at the horror of apartheid. 19 I Clinton St. Gallery— Ricardo Block, Curtis Hoard, Kate Hunt, Constance Lowe Some of the Twin Cities finest artists strut their stuff. —going back to a chilly afternoon in December 1986 at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. Lenny Dee, a co-publisher of the Portland CSQ, had grown increasingly intrigued with reports of the cultural ferment going on in the Twin Cities while Julie Ristau, then associate publisher of the M inneapolisbased Utne Reader, had grown increasingly intrigued with CSQ through the issues she’d read. Vague plans were sealed over cocktails at this between-planes meeting for a Twin Cities edition of the newspaper. A hearty outpouring of local interest in the ensuing months has produced an exciting homegrown product. As in the Pacific Northwest at the time of CSQ’s founding, there 28 Free Trade—The Great Destroyer—David Morris An investigative inquiry into how the growing globalization of the economy will affect all our lives. 34 Paralyzed For L ife— John Callahan The Lighter Side of Being a Quadriplegic. Raquel—Sharon Doubiago What’s it like to be the most beautiful girl in the whole wide world. 44 The Snap Revolution— James Fenton On the scene in Manila as Marcos falls. Was he tripped or did he pull the strings? is no journal in Minnesota open to cross-pollination of artists, activists, philosophers and writers. CSQ—with its unique emphasis of giving equal balance to editorial and visual elements as well as its well-rounded devotion to literature, politics, humor, and the mysterious ways of the world around us—will be a chroniclerand amplifier for the many strains of creativity in our community. What you see in front of you is a magazine with a proven record of publishing history yet one that is at the same time just beginning. To spark wonder—as that exquisite eclipse once did —we need your talents, energy, and opinions. Lenny Dee & Julie Ristau Clinton St. Quarterly—Spring, 1988 3
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