Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have great concern that we are starting to see a more heterosexual pattern of spread emerging in these countries," Dr. Thomas C. Quinn said. "Once it becomes an established heterosexual epidemic in those countries, it has a potential for rapidly increasing in sheer numbers, like in Africa...
...Their concern, expressed in an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, is based in part on the apparent spread of the disease from homosexuals to heterosexuals. This shift will put far more people at risk of AIDS...
Some younger artists question whether an obsessive concern with the raw realities of daily life may prove to be as intellectually numbing as the . pompous official art of the past. They have turned inward to explore the realm of the subconscious and myth. Others have followed a completely different path, setting art aside to take up journalism, history and politics. The diversity, even the confusion, has been welcomed after decades of conformity. "We need time to get over our feeling of shock and process all this new information," says Okudzhava. "The masterpieces will come later. Now we must editorialize, speak...
More and more Soviets are heeding such warnings these days, as a new concern about health and fitness sweeps the country. Dozens of state-run and private aerobics centers have cropped up in large cities. A television station in Moscow runs a 15-min. program called Morning Gymnastics at 8 daily, and another show, Aerobics, appears several afternoons each week. Popular journals are carrying more articles about controlling that well-known artery clogger kholesterine. Perhaps not coincidentally, the slim, fashionable Raisa Gorbachev, who travels regularly with her husband, is projecting a new image for the Soviet woman...
Having justified itself for two decades and more as a medium of political expression -- obliquely during the Brezhnev years, sometimes rantingly during the current thaw -- the Soviet stage sees itself as needing to rediscover its true concern, the human soul. Audiences apparently agree. While theatergoers continue to clap for lines of topical invective, they seem to respond most strongly to intimate glimpses of lost love, betrayal by friends and alcoholic desperation, whether in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the Moscow Art Theater or in quasi-documentary scripts about prostitutes and gravediggers performed by the city's most impressive acting troupe...