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Mikhail Gorbachev. The name, the beaming, birthmarked visage and the outstretched, crowd-caressing hand have become so familiar in the past 33 months that it is difficult to remember the man's predecessors.Vague images come to mind of stone-faced figures frozen in mid-frown atop the Lenin Mausoleum. Gargoyles in fur hats. Perhaps Gorbachev's most obvious accomplishment is that he has reinvented the idea of a Soviet leader. Virtually everything about his country and its place in world affairs seems less ponderous, less opaque than it did before he became General Secretary of the Communist Party...
...homosexuals, who already enjoy antidiscrimination guarantees in the civil and diplomatic services. The government has promised to produce a bill this autumn that will outlaw antihomosexual discrimination in housing and in the hiring of teachers in public and private schools. Many Catholics, as well as members of Lubbers' party, frown on the prospect of parochial schools being told they no longer have the right to choose their instructors, and the legislation's fate is uncertain...
...afraid of cosmetic surgery or who are too young for a full face-lift. "I was starting to get lines, and they were not part of how I felt I should look," said Marilyn Tschida, 44, owner of a picture-framing store in West Palm Beach, Fla., who had frown lines filled out last month. Mary Nielsen, an Oakland sales representative who says she is in her late 30s, decided to ease her laugh lines when "people started calling me 'Ma'am' instead of 'Miss.' " Michael Epstein, 32, who runs eight miles a day and plays tennis twice a week...
...members were obsessed with "manly" behavior. They cajoled candidates into guzzling "Owl Juice," which tasted like a martini, from an ornate pitcher. When I told a Club member that I might miss an event to keep a date with my long-distance girlfriend, he warned that the Club would frown upon an "unmanly excuse." Later I listened to two members brag about their liasons with various women...
Bosses increasingly frown on employees who smell of liquor after lunch, and aggressive yuppies, some of whom have turned to the coke spoon instead of the bottle, fear that booze will slow them down. "You can't run on the fast track with demon rum eating at your stamina," says Sam Wolfe, a recent University of North Carolina law school graduate. "I can't remember a single business meeting in a long time where anybody's had a drink," says Warner LeRoy, owner of New York City's Maxwell's Plum. When someone orders a stiff one, "a mental trigger...