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...married men come in this bar," says Jason McCoy, 30, a bartender in an Atlanta gay bar. "They're part of the afternoon cocktail ; crowd. They come in, talk, fool around and then leave. I doubt many of their wives suspect anything at all." Dooley Worth, a leader of a Manhattan discussion group for women exposed to AIDS, says men do not like to admit their bisexuality: "If a relationship is really rotten," she advises the group, "change the assumption that there is another woman. It may be a man." Aurele Samuels, a researcher working with Dorothea Hays, a nursing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Chill: Fear of AIDS | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...seems as if the actors leap off-stage every 40 seconds, returning with a new costume even more hilariously appropriate than the last. Sharkskin jackets with velvet collars, peg-leg pants with built-in bicycle clips, skirts floating on clouds of crinoline, striped loafers and white bucks, strapless cocktail dresses revealing white powdered shoulders. The hats along bring a lump to the throat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Theater: | 2/13/1987 | See Source »

...Communist Yugoslavia, which is not part of the Soviet bloc, 40% of those convicted of narcotics smuggling are foreigners. In Czechoslovakia, potentially addictive drugs are readily available: more than 90 sedatives and pain killers can be bought without a prescription. Users mix the drugs in water to produce a cocktail called pernaik (literally, gingerbread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe Shooting Up Under a Red Star | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...Robert Wagner) to take note of their troubles by keeping a diary detailing every bit of their daily food intake. At one session with Lee last month, Filmmaker Janna Gelfand, 26, read off the venial sins that had cost her an added pound, notably hors d'oeuvres at two cocktail parties. "You should have had a big bowl of vegetable soup before leaving your house," said Lee. Gelfand objected, "I had a tight dress on, and soup puffs out my tummy." Still, she has lost ten pounds and is enthusiastic about Lee's method; "She tells me to imagine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: The Weight Shrinks | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

Just in case the Harvard Law grad does decide to toss his hat into the ring, here are a few Duke facts you can impress your friends with at cocktail parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: after the facts | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

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