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...gays are vastly less separate than they used to be, they are far from equal. Americans are willing to accept the abstract idea that gays have equal rights under the law -- 53% in the TIME poll favor allowing them to serve in the military, and a plurality of 47% to 45% supports giving them the same civil rights protection as racial and religious minorities -- but are distinctly less comfortable when asked about gays close at hand. By 57% to 36%, poll respondents say gays cannot be good role models for children; 21% say they would not even buy from...
...Because O.J. Simpson's celebrity means that for most Americans he is a flesh-and-blood human being. We comfortably call him "O.J.," even though we've never met him, because in our mind he's a friend. Even if convicted of murder, he'll never be an abstract symbol of evil like the typical death-penalty customer with three names -- Robert Alton Harris, Rickey ; Ray Rector, John Wayne Gacy et al. For once, in the competition of humanization between the murderer and his victims, the murderer would have an unbeatable edge...
Even Schreibers' office is undoubtedly trendy, with abstract paintings a black leather couch and his own purple leather chair...
...round sunglasses and the head scarf, she wore some inner armoring; she possessed an eerie talent (a strategy of self-protection well known to those who handle dangerous animals) to make herself disappear, to dematerialize. If you saw her on the street, she would seem to abstract herself out of public attention, a kind of elegant vanishing. She would be, as she finally is now . . . elsewhere...
...Smith's Cubi from 1963, a series long acknowledged as being among the peak efforts of America's finest modern sculptor, fetched $4 million; and an extraordinarily fine Arshile Gorky, Dark Green Painting, 1948, made its low estimate of $3.5 million. But you could hardly call a classic of Abstract Expressionism a contemporary picture...