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...resistance, and few contemporary writers seek to emulate their manifestos. On one subject, however, the theater is ablaze with social concern: the deadly viral disease known as AIDS, which as of last week had claimed 4,906 lives and is worsening. At least seven productions around the country have dealt with its impact, particularly on the major risk group, male homosexuals. Actors from coast to coast have performed Jeff Hagedorn's monologue One, which begins, "I have acquired a disease that means I am going to die." In 1984 Atlanta's Seven Stages Theater produced Warren, a portrait...
Americans are usually gentler and more metaphorical than some other peoples in consigning their public figures to forgettery. Joseph Stalin slaughtered a generation or two of Soviet leadership. He dealt out the ultimate obscurity: death. It was part of his theory of management. Sometimes he invited prospective victims to his all-night dinners (about 10 p.m. to dawn) and later had the NKVD take them off to be shot. One ruler in Central Africa is said to have murdered hundreds of his people and sometimes eaten them for supper...
With only one more meeting left on the schedule, the council dealt with a number of policy issues and committee reports...
Through there will certainly be some criminals who must be put behind bars, even some violent criminals might safely be dealt with through measures short of imprisonment, or at least through a combination of shorter prison sentences and other post-release measures. Finally, for those now imprison and those whose crimes are so serious that they require incarceration, "good time" laws can shorten the duration of prison sentences and encourage rehabilitation. Such laws provide early release on parole for good behavior in prison with the possibility of reimprisonment for violation of the terms of parole. They are by no means...
...wards the end of the decade Rich joined the women's movement and declared herself a lesbian, incorporating her views on women's liberation into her poetry. Most recently, Rich's work has dealt with the light of the homeless...