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That rape, and especially gang rape, is a crime of terrifying seriousness need hardly be repeated. But the particularly beings and peculiar nature of this rape merits special attention. This rape has an audience. In fact, there were at least a dozen men in Big Dan's Tavern that night who watched and cheered as the victim suffered. Not one man, not even the bartender, moved to stop the rapists. No one, to what must have been a gruesome spectacle is more than reprehensible--it is mind-boggling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Perennial Issues | 7/15/1983 | See Source »

...away from on the bus; he spars gingerly with an old pal, croaks a song or two and returns without warning to the attic of reverie. Look behind the electrified hair and the cunningly garbled consonants of Murphy's Buckwheat, a resurrection of the character from the Our Gang comedies, and you will find a showbiz paradigm: the exploitation of a smile and a conspicuous lack of talent into big bucks. Whites are not immune either. He can metamorphose into Gumby, the '50s cartoon character who has somehow aged into a carping Catskills comic; or a late-show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Good Little Bad Little Boy | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...Bosse's best characters are fictive. Philip Embree, a missionary fresh out of Yale Divinity School, tries to escape his past by joining up with a gang of bandits. Vera Rogacheva, a beautiful White Russian, attempts to escape her future by surviving with the help of sex and guile. Tang, a Chinese general, still observes the ancient code of honor in a world where that concept has little place. As richly textured as a tapestry, The Warlord captures both the essence of Asia and the sweeping panorama of a people trapped between the ancient grinding forces of hollow tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...final word of warning Boston as you probably found out by now has a drinking age of 20 A bummer for those who like Molson Even more of a bummer for those who like Gang of Four but who haven't yet reached bed Fd King's sacred age Most of the clubs mentioned above are serious about enforcing this and their bouncers are mean and nasty If you are not yet 20 you better have an excellent take I D These incredible hulks can snill out the jokers Pleading won't you any where either

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston's Smorgasbord of Sounds | 6/26/1983 | See Source »

...minutes they enter into the life of Arnold Beckoff, who makes his living performing as a drag queen in a New York City nightclub. He falls in love with a schoolteacher, loses him to a woman, then falls in love again, only to have that lover killed by a gang of gay baiters. What Arnold really wants is to have a family, like everyone else, and he winds up adopting a gay 15-year-old. "What's nice about Arnold is that he's struggling to be truthful," says Fierstein. "Not many people do. At the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No Opened Doors for Me | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

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