Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...published such long-banned writers as Vladimir Nabokov and Osip Mandelstam. Moscow News has exposed police harassment of a journalist seeking to document shoddy construction of a power plant. Just how daring the press became is illustrated by a joke making the rounds in Moscow. A pensioner calls a friend and exclaims, "Did you see that incredible article in Pravda today?" "No, tell me about it," says the friend. "Sorry," the pensioner replies, "not on the phone...
Madonna strode onstage, and 15,000 fans went bats. "It feels great to be in a house full of people who care," she told the Madison Square Garden crowd. "AIDS is a strange and powerful disease. But we're more powerful." Then Madonna, who lost her "best friend," Painter Martin Burgoyne, 24, to AIDS, rocked the Garden with old songs given pertinent twists. As she sang Papa Don't Preach, the screens flashed Ronald Reagan's image; at song's end, they bore the message SAFE SEX. Everyone got the message from the concert, which raised...
...although The Normal Heart may soon be produced by Barbra Streisand. Nor have rock musicians, trapped in machismo, done much to raise money and consciousnesses. In pop music, that is mostly women's work. And women, like Madonna, are doing splendidly. Dionne Warwick's megahit single That's What Friends Are For raised more than $1 million for AMFAR. Cyndi Lauper's royalties from Boy Blue, about a friend who died from the disease, will go to New York City AIDS research and patient care. Says Elizabeth Taylor, a ferocious fund raiser for AIDS research: "Since we began fighting this...
...model aircraft at the Radioplane Corp., prompted Conover to request a two-week leave, which he spent touring the Mojave Desert with the young beauty and teaching her some modeling techniques. Conover returned late from his leave and was shipped out to the Philippines. The film, sent to a friend to be developed, was lost, except for ten photos that appeared in Conover's 1981 book Finding Marilyn. Conover died last year, and the negatives of the original pictures from his book, along with 15 unpublished transparencies, are expected to fetch up to $32,000 when they are auctioned...
...summers ago, in 1977, my friend Sue called the hotel in Chicago where the Red Sox were staying on road trip. She asked for Butch Hobson's room. She talked to Butch Hobson. I was jealous, but never stopped to question why an 11-year-old could carry on a perfectly normal conversation with an older man she had never met, halfway across the country...