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McCartney's latest release, Flowers in the Dirt, was modestly successful, and produced one Top-10 hit, "My Brave Face," and the little-known but solid "We Got Married." But strangely enough, the first Paul McCartney world tour since 1976 began almost a year after the album's release. McCartney obviously wasn't counting on the strength of his recent work to draw his overwhelmingly middle-aged crowd...
...made it in the '70s, Edmund was the only one who had entree in the pre-existing literary circles, the sophisticated world of Susan Sontag and Richard Howard, but he turned his back on it. He wanted it known that he was a gay writer. That was a very brave decision on his part. For me, that made him a gay leader...
Having fled over the Wall in 1976, Nina Hagen discovered the brave new world of punk music. Hagen, 35, learned her craft by singing along to tapes of Tina Turner and Janis Joplin, "although I couldn't speak a word of English." She got started in East Berlin's jazz circuit and has since emerged as an international rock star. Meantime, she has made more changes than Madonna, festooning herself with chains and wearing metal bras, wild wigs and ghoulish makeup. On her latest album, Hagen pounds out a number titled Gorbachev Rap. After all, she explains, it's important...
Though some right-to-die advocates called him "a brave pioneer," doctors , and ethicists challenged Kevorkian on both moral and procedural grounds. Even groups that sponsor "death with dignity" legislation are careful to include safeguards to prevent the laws from being abused. Most require that patients make a witnessed, legal request in writing, with two independent doctors confirming that the patient's condition is unbearable and irreversible. Says Susan M. Wolf of the Hastings Center: "Even the staunchest proponents of physician-assisted suicide should be horrified at this case because there were no procedural protections...
...shows the deposed leader in his last years watching with dismay as his reforms are overturned. Now his son offers the most detailed and authoritative account to date of how the "special pensioner" was able to conduct his own defiant experiment in glasnost -- and why he had decided to brave the anger of his former comrades...