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...reduced him to tears a few years ago. Now he hears such news matter-of- factly, numbly, without flinching. He replenishes his sensitivity by leaving the U.S. on vacation two or three times a year, always to places where AIDS is far less rife and the disease is not apt to come up in conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gays and AIDS: An Identity Forged in Flames | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

Some of the generational split is ideological. The younger gays are more apt to be publicly outspoken about their sexuality and militant about social issues. They provide the bulk of the manpower for ACT-UP and Queer Nation, the two largest militant groups, and they are the gays most likely to endorse such extreme tactics as "outing" -- exposing the secret homosexuality of people who are judged to have hurt the movement or, sometimes, simply to have failed to do enough to help it. Older gay men are more apt to be somewhat closeted, to emphasize working within the system rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gays and AIDS: An Identity Forged in Flames | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

...title of Bill Buford's first book is disturbingly apt. The ancient Hindu practitioners of thuggee strangled their victims amid much ritual and in so doing attained a state of religious ecstasy. Surprisingly little direct killing occurs at the hands of Buford's modern-day thugs -- the soccer hooligans of Britain who consecrate their Saturdays to violence. But their battles are ritualistic in their choreographed precision, and the effects on the participants are mind bending as the adrenaline pumps, the fists fly and the boots drive into the sides and skulls of the fallen. "They talk about the crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riot by Appointment | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

...weeks ahead the TV talk shows are apt to be filled with Washington insiders harrumphing mightily that, of course, Perot could never deal with Congress; it would be a disaster. This conventional view is buttressed by a strong argument: Perot, the perpetual maverick who could never recruit allies on the GM board of directors, would be facing a Congress of 535 members of the opposition parties. Pet rocks, indeed. But legislators can also read the election returns, or they wouldn't be on Capitol Hill in the first place. As California Democratic Congressman Howard Berman says, "The level of demoralization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Ready, But Is America ready for PRESIDENT PEROT? | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

Utahans, on the other hand, are more trusting, says Hill. "there's an innocence about them...the people are more wholesome, more apt to trust you," she says...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Mary Poppins Goes Slam Dancing | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

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