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...cost their lives . . . In letters mailed back home her Eastern sisters they would moan as they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief." The words are printed like this in the album notes, as if they were bits of homespun prose from some cosmic farmer's almanac; but Merchant sings them with dreamy, insistent fervor, like a reverie from O Pioneers! Or maybe Wisconsin Death Trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fascinating Friction | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...airing on PBS, player-detectives decipher a series of verbal clues, then use their knowledge of geography to score points. The top scorer gets to chase Carmen around a large, unmarked map. In the computer version -- which is played with the help of books like a the World Almanac or an atlas -- competitors may be shown an image of Socrates and have to know when he lived in order to move to the next clue. Carmen's trail may lead a player from Kigali to Istanbul, from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Cowboy Hall of Fame, or from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget Verdi, Try Carmen | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

FOUR years ago, I leafed through Jonathan Ned Katz's Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) that was standing in my boyfriend's bookcase. At the time I was just coming out; learning to deal with myself as a gay and struggling with all the homophobic baggage around me and upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bringing "Out" In | 10/25/1990 | See Source »

This relationship is vital, as lesbian bisexual and gay studies examine how all gay pleasure--and any other pleasure on the social margins--is political. Indeed, Katz's Gay/Lesbian Almanac begins with the Massachusetts Bay Colony's 1641 legal code that made a "man lying with a man" a capital crime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bringing "Out" In | 10/25/1990 | See Source »

Second District: Incumbent Neal expected to defeat primary opponent Dimauro. No final election opponent. Michael Barone and Grant Ujifusa, authors of The Almanac of American Politics call this district "one of the safest of congressional seats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Congressional Races Remain Slow | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

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