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...real hostility among the majority of people who cannot help but see homosexual love as aberrent behavior. Still, there is an attraction to homosexuality--most who share in it would call it perverse, while admitting to it nonetheless--the thought of what the other way must feel like, the curious reviling of the opposite sex and almost narcissistic indulgence in the flesh of your own: it can grate on libidos and unhinge nagging emotions of doubt and longing. Straight is cool, of course, but the other path has yet to be explored...
Government "failure" is a curious concept, an idea much abused by political "outs" over the years. In the years of Democratic control of the national and most state legislatures since the New Deal, Republicans carped predictably about the shortcomings of government intervention; that is the opposition's job. But around the end of the '70s, even Democrats moved toward the realization that they did not have all the answers. If the "ins" had any doubts about their effectiveness, the overwhelming success of Proposition 13 in June 1979--and the similar proposals it inspired in other states--earned the tax revolt...
...biography of Warsaw's new man on horseback is full of curious twists...
...diplomat is cleared under curious circumstances
...above the babble of noise as minor government officials shouted their need for more gasoline coupons, newspaper vendors protested that they sold only Islamic papers, two men arrested for fighting resumed their fight, and a hysterical couple wailed that their daughter was missing. The setting was appropriate for the curious questioning that began: "Why have you been arrested...