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...That's Lucien, Genet's lover; see how cute he is! He's now running a garage." Discussing a scene where two prisoners, in separate cells, share forbidden cigarette smoke passed through a straw, White notes, "It's totally improbable; in reality you couldn't put that straw through a brick wall, but it's sexy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDMUND WHITE: Imagining Other Lives | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

However, another section of the new ordinanceprohibiting performances altogether in one stretchof the Square has evoked vehement criticism. Underthe new law, performances are forbidden alongBrattle St., from Church St. to just past theAmerican Repertory Theatre...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: City Council Passes Law On Street Performances | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

According to Kenney, all foreigners applying for entry visas at American consulates abroad are required to reveal whether they are infected with a number of diseases, including AIDS. Those who reveal they are infected are forbidden from entering the U.S. without a waiver, Kenney said...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: University Threatens To Nix Sponsorship Of AIDS Conference | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...brought Father some "forbidden" books. Once I got a typewritten copy of Doctor Zhivago. Later, during a walk, he said, "We shouldn't have banned it. I should have read it myself. There's nothing anti-Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Khrushchev On Khrushchev | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...costs of fighting two world wars. By 1945, Britain was, in international terms, broke. Deprived of its underpinning of foreign assets, sterling became a wobbly currency, held precariously upright by a stiff corset of exchange controls. As late as 20 years after the war, Britons were forbidden to take more than (pounds)50 out of the country. Direct investment overseas required special dispensation from the Bank of England; portfolio investment was virtually banned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World of Business: The New Elizabethans | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

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