Word: exoticism
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Without aiding Jesse Helms, might one advise performance artists that there are worthier topics than graphic details of sexual awakening? David Drake's THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME comes from a radicalized gay who is too busy satirizing cruising in bars and gyms to define the thinking that shaped...
As soon as he's finished battling Customs, Treasury, the Department of Transportation, the Coast Guard and much of the White House staff, Drug Enforcement Administration chief ROBERT BONNER may want to begin circulating his resume. Bonner started the fight with "Operation Granite," a new drug- interdiction scheme he concocted...
But the real attractions outside, especially in summer, when the patio overflows with every sort of person imaginable. Chess aficionados duke it out at the numerous game tables, kids with blue hair hang on the railings and exchange students converse in exotic languages.
Permanent cures are more elusive. But for more severe allergies, doctors have had some success with a course of treatment that resembles the folk- medicine cure for hangover: patients are immunized with a little hair from the dog that bit them. In this seemingly primitive therapy, allergy shots consisting of...
The region does face threats. According to Nilson de Barros, president of the Society for the Defense of the Pantanal, the rivers that feed into its marshes are being polluted by gold mining, deforestation and agriculture. To feed cattle herds, some ranchers are planting exotic grasses that threaten the delicate...