Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certainly expected to get on a later flight," said Terianne Tapia, who was up from New York to visit her boyfriend in Boston. "It's a bummer. I have to be at work...
...immediate conclusion -- that the culprit is the Haitian boyfriend of her Austrian au pair girl -- will offend liberal sensibilities, especially since it turns out to be correct. Bellow has ruffled racial feathers before, notably in Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970) and The Dean's December (1982), and his new heroine's thoughts will not heal those old wounds: "These people came up from the tropical slums to outsmart New York, and with all the rules crumbling here as elsewhere, so that nobody could any longer be clear in his mind about anything, they could do it." But Clara is here...
Some weeks ago, as the press and TV uproar began to subside, the two women spent a couple of days sorting photos in the Portland house Allison shares with her boyfriend, a local doctor. Allison and Luce did not know each other before the expedition, and though they are friendly enough, it seems doubtful that their lives from this point will take them in similar directions. The contrast in character is too great. Even the extraordinary physical and mental strengths that each possesses are of sharply divergent kinds. Luce is a big, powerful, easygoing soul who for several years...
...abide what seems to be imprecision. "That implies that people who don't climb don't feel life sharply. Children feel life sharply . . ." "O.K., you're probably right," says Luce amiably. "Strike that last answer." What next? Allison, the house framer, has gone back into contracting. She and her boyfriend want to spend a lot of time kayaking. And there is some $60,000 still owing (of the $250,000 total cost) on the expedition...
HOMOPHOBIC incidents are not isolated events which affect an isolated group of people. Homophobia is a pernicious force of social control. The same homophobia that makes me afriad to go to a dance with my boyfriend prevents Congress from adequately funding AIDS education programs. Meanwhile, the disease spreads and threatens everyone. That same homophobia may discourage some women--gay, bi, or hetero--from taking a Women's Studies course because they fear being stereotyped. Homophobia involves us all, regardless of who we love, or how we define our sexualities...