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...were figures of fear, preying on normal people and meriting Hollywood's sternest judgment. They were murdered--and a good thing too--in Caged and Suddenly, Last Summer. The nicer ones were left to their own misery, suicide being the only solution for characters who either had a homosexual fling (Don Murray in Advise and Consent) or were accused of one (Shirley MacLaine in The Children's Hour). Moral: the only good gay was a dead gay. It took the 1970 film of Mart Crowley's hit play The Boys in the Band to find good news amid...
...will help Lamar," said Courchesne, who like Alexander was wearing a red and black plaid flannel shirt. "Let [the other candidates] fling the mud, [Alexander] will walk above them...
...communication honest? Cyberspace is filled with dissemblers who mask their age and even their sex, usually to enjoy, or avoid, the attention showered on women in chat rooms and bulletin boards. A 43-year-old Bostonian who thought he was having a hot fling with a 23-year-old woman discovered to his dismay that "she" was an 80-year-old man in a Miami nursing home...
Observers are not surprised that business is flourishing despite the ominous political situation. "It's one thing to posture, to fling your arms in the air," says Andrew Freris, an economist for Salomon Brothers in Hong Kong. "But trade goes on. Look at the figures, and you say, 'Crisis? What crisis?'" Unfortunately, as history shows, politics usually trumps trade when military passions are inflamed...
That suggests, though it does not prove, that biology will take hold if it possibly can, even under hostile conditions. In fact, biologists have not quite given up on our own solar system yet. They think Mars may have had a brief fling with one-cell life that could have left fossil evidence behind. Some even hold out the hope that microorganisms are still surviving somewhere under the Martian surface. Attention is also turning to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons; its icy white surface could conceal oceans of liquid water, and perhaps some sorts of living organism. Both possibilities...