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...inflexibility simply pushed matters to the extreme. I isolated myself even more by refusing to practice my high school French on sympathetic Parisian ears. And I completely ignored the reality of the Paris modeling scene by maintaining a barrier between my work and private life, thereby infuriating my agent. My negativity was reflected in a recurring vision of neutron bombs landing on the city preserving its art while vaporizing its citizens...
...confusing. Immigrants from Haiti turned up with AIDS. Not only was this puzzling?many claimed they were neither homosexuals nor drug users?but the discovery raised special problems for the epidemiologists. Homosexuality is scorned in Haiti, and the victims were reluctant to talk about their sexual habits. The language barrier also played a role; it was hard for investigators to describe in Creole?the everyday patois of Haiti?the homosexual acts in question, particularly since the same word applies to both homosexuality and transvestism. Many of the immigrants were in the U.S. illegally, and thus understandably reluctant to talk...
...person in Boston to do, as an independent filmmaker, is to make a fiction film," says Gerald Peary of American Film Magazine. "Even harder is to make a fiction film which is funny. This is a national problem as well. Reggie has broken through a really tough barrier by writing a script that's truly very funny. It's quite an achievement...
...play. It is also possible that if Blacks are generally better athletes than whites, high school coaches may encourage Blacks to play football and basketball because they generally return more money to the school because of greater fan interest than baseball Since there is no evidence of racial barriers between the minors and majors it could be that this barrier exists even before professional baseball...
...play. It is also possible that if Blacks are generally better athletes than whites, high school coaches may encourage Blacks to play football and basketball because they generally return more money to the school because of greater fan interest than baseball Since there is no evidence of racial barriers between the minors and majors it could be that this barrier exists even before professional baseball...