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Where Austen places marriage at the center of her novels, "Fruit Cocktail" effectively proposes that sex is, for many, the most vital part of contemporary gay male experience. Miller's piece is a familiar refrain of boyhood discovery, adolescent repression and ultimate sexual release, as he moves from his childhood in Whittier, California, to his backyard autoerotic exploits, to his first sexual encounter with a modern dancer named David. One never tires of hearing stories like this, but the taboos of the dominant sexual order prevent them from being told often enough (Miller's notorious battles with government officials over...
...ATHLETIC PEAK] Whipped boyhood friend in a tennis match after practicing secretly...
...death for mutiny and murder and sentenced his successor, Roh Tae-woo, to 22 1/2 years for participation in mutiny. The landmark decision puts a cap on an era of corruption and oligarchical politics that had gripped the country throughout the 1980's. The two convicted men were boyhood friends who rose through the military and as generals staged a coup in 1979, placing Chun into the presidency. Six months later, Chun ordered a brutal crackdown of pro-democracy uprisings in the Kwang-ju province. The police action left some 200 dead, and Kwang-ju became a rallying...
...anything that comes easy probably isn't worth having. This way, the hard way, says Dole, is the only way he has ever got anything and anywhere in this life. It is how he swallowed his pride as he and his family moved into the basement of his boyhood home so that oilmen could move in above them. How he came home from World War II not alive or dead but in-between, boxed and crated in a plaster cast, shot up in so many places that he was reduced at 21 to a second infancy, learning all over again...
...questionable. William shows affection for both his parents--chumming up with Charles and protecting Diana. It is likely that he has learned from her as well as the Windsors, and that would be to his advantage. Especially in his early years, she led the way to a more open boyhood and to some contact with the nation's disadvantaged. As Diana moves into her 40s, some of the media attention will focus on handsome, eligible Wills. Says Edward Pilkington, who writes on the royals for the Guardian: "The monarchy needs someone who is seen to be as popular as Diana...