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Discussions of the allegedly urgent need to get the machines in the houses usually are informed by a sneaking delight at the ability to talk about condoms and sex under the guise of serious conversation. (Admit it. Condoms are funny.) This is perhaps the only positive aspect of AIDS, that it has encouraged more open and free discussion of such hitherto hushed-up matters as homosexuality...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Political Machines | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

...skill with which he did this might seem almost quaint. But in Demuth's day, the public atmosphere was, of course, very different, and he, like Marcel Duchamp and other artists in the avant- garde circle that formed around the collectors Louise and Walter Arensberg, took a special delight in sowing his work with sexual hints. The handlebar of a vaudeville trick rider's bicycle turns into a penis aimed at his crotch; sailors dance with girls in a cabaret but ogle one another; in some still lifes, the flowers and vegetables acquire a nudging suggestiveness. Sigmund Freud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Charles Demuth amid the Silos | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...hardly visit the great exhibition of English Gothic art, "The Age of Chivalry," which opened this month at the Royal Academy in London, without mixed feelings of delight, surfeit and loss. The first, obviously, because this is the first show to trace so large a part of England's cultural inheritance. It starts in 1216 with the enthronement of Henry III and ends with the death of the last Plantagenet, Richard II, in 1399, a span of nearly 200 years that brought Gothic art to England from France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Blazing Exceptions to Nature | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...London "The Age of Chivalry" evokes regret at how much English Gothic art has been lost to history, and delight at what survives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page November 30, 1987 | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...former party leader in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, Yeltsin was brought to Moscow by Gorbachev in 1985 and quickly established himself as a supersalesman of perestroika (restructuring), Gorbachev's plan to modernize the Soviet economy. To the delight of ordinary Muscovites, he became a one-man consumer-protection agency, stopping off in stores to complain about poor- quality merchandise, calling Moscow's famed subway unsafe and criticizing state contractors for falling behind in constructing new housing. But his blunt language and grandstanding earned him enemies. Explains Marshall Goldman, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "People came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union I Am Very Guilty | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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