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Some would argue that AIDS "examples" are necessary to educate people about AIDS prevention. Yet cancer is also a nearly incurable, often fatal illness that can be prevented to some extent by changes in lifestyle, and education about cancer prevention has been accomplished without this sort of celebrity brouhaha. One would never hear reporters deciding to "out" famous people with cancer, but editors of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Orlando Sentinel, among others, said they would have made Ashe's illness known--even without his consent--for the good of the public. This only reinforces the perception that AIDS...
Hardly surprising, then, that the savory city of rebels and craftsmen would appeal to Hughes, the longtime art critic for TIME and the epic chronicler of his native Australia (in the best-selling Fatal Shore). In Barcelona Hughes shows, in magisterial detail, how the brash province has always been as distinct from Spain as Catalan is from Spanish (derived as it is not from early Latin but from later). At the same time he notes, with affectionate irony, how Catalans have sometimes sung the praises of their unique tongue in Spanish. Some Catalans, he remarks, feel homesick even while...
...scandalous insurance salesman. MacMurray sells a policy for accidental death to a naive man and plots with the man's wife (Barbra Stanwyck) to kill him and collect the money. MacMurray's boss (Edward G. Robinson), hesitant to pay the policy, stalks the couple, waiting for one fatal slip...
Tsongas realizes that America cannot continue to divide a shrinking pie. "Democrats must get in the business of wealth creation," he has insisted. He recognizes the Democratic party's fatal contradiction of claiming to be pro-jobs while lashing out at American business...
This insidious new image, Faludi claims, was Hope Steadman, the exalted, blissful, breast-feeding mother of thirtysomething, who provided a postfeminist contrast to the "neurotic spinster ((and)) ball-busting single career woman." Or Glenn Close's character in Fatal Attraction, the crazed professional temptress -- beautiful, successful and mad as a hatter, thanks to the deafening tick of her biological clock. Or the Dress for Success models who, in Faludi's lethal description, "trip down the runway in stiletto heels, hands snug in dainty white gloves. Their briefcases swing like Easter baskets, feather light; they are, after all, empty...