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...casting couch, spilling their secret sordid pasts to the director. Yet the thing worked onstage as a puissant metaphor for shab-elegant show biz, where exhibitionism and humiliation dance in precise sync, where each passion must be displayed nakedly and clothed in artifice, where a dedicated pro's highest hope is to tap and smile invisibly behind the star. Each dancer's bio may have been trite: a child finding refuge and transcendence in dancing school (At the Ballet), a mouse whose charms are augmented by cosmetic surgery (Dance 10, Looks 3), a teenager whose parents find him dressed...
...based Planned Parenthood Federation. "While European societies have chosen to recognize sexual development as a normal part of human development, we have chosen to repress it. At the same time, we behave as if we're not repressing it." In studying various cultures, the Guttmacher researchers found that the highest teen-pregnancy rates were in countries with the least open attitudes toward sex. "The ambivalence our society is projecting about sex is costing us a lot," concludes Institute President Rosoff...
...wonder teenage pregnancies have reached epidemic proportions in some ghetto areas. According to Guttmacher statistics, black American teenagers have the highest fertility rate of any teenage population group in the entire world. (Israeli Arabs come in a distant second.) One in four black babies in the U.S. is born to a teen mother, most of them unwed. "In the black community, the phenomenon of teen marriage is almost gone," observes Mark Testa of NORC. "Eventually these girls get married, but it might be years later and not to the father of the child." Young black women under...
...have nothing against Cory Aquino's running for President of the Philippines. But how will she persuade voters to entrust the highest position of the land to a woman who has not held any public office? Being the widow of a brilliant man does not make her brilliant too. Avelino U. Falcon Madrid, the Philippines Demoted Rembrandt...
...highest-ranking new technocrats are Li Peng, 57, widely seen as China's next Premier, and Hu Qili, 56, heir apparent to the powerful post of General Secretary of the Communist Party. Both men were elevated last fall to the party's policy-setting Politburo. Li, the adopted son of former Premier Chou En-lai, is a Soviet-educated engineer who speaks Russian and has served as minister of the Chinese power industry. Hu, a fluent English speaker, runs the party's day-to-day activities...