Word: form
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Calm had returned by the time Pope John Paul II appeared. In the first major papal statement on AIDS, the Pontiff called on governments "to develop and carry out a worldwide plan to combat AIDS and drug addiction." He urged patients not to despair and condemned "every form of discrimination" against them. But he warned against "morally illicit" methods of preventing AIDS -- a clear allusion to condoms -- and spoke of "abuse of sexuality," referring to homosexuality, as a cause of the spreading of AIDS. He said the crisis results from "immunodeficiency" in values...
...VISION: PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. This smartly conceived show, which introduces the Metropolitan's new Ford Motor Company Collection of 20th century photographs, highlights the camera's courtship of pure form. Through...
Tsongas, 48, decided not to run for a second U.S. Senate term in 1984 when he was diagnosed as having a mild form of lymphoma, a type of cancer...
Both Bulger and House majority leader Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge) have called some form of new taxes inevitable if lawmakers want to solve the state's deficit problem, and Flaherty said an increase in at least one "broad-based" tax would be part of any package considered by the House...
Almost alone among his contemporaries, Malamud was equally gifted at the novel and short story. In some moods he preferred the short form: "In a few pages a good story portrays the complexity of a life while producing the surprise and effect of knowledge -- not a bad payoff." All the stories salvaged here are good, and so is the payoff...