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...Medicine published the results of a study that should finally put such fears to rest. The study, conducted at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, involved 101 people living in close but nonsexual contact with AIDS patients. Its conclusion: the risk of catching AIDS, even in an intimate household setting, is "minimal to nonexistent...
...Shug Avery (Margaret Avery), takes more of a liking to Celie than to the boorish Mister. This torch singer with a heart of gold teaches Celie how to have pride and how to stand up for herself. Gradually, under Shug's tutelage, Celie begins to initiate convert acts of household terrorism like spitting into drinks of water and lemonade. Shug also enjoys special privileges in the House of Mister-including getting the mail-and thus Celie is able to receive a long-awaited letter from her sister...
...film's version of the relationship between Celie and Shug is that its lesbian aspect, which made the book somewhat infamous, is here largely absent. Missing is Celie's narration of her sexual affairs with Shug, a very interesting and poignant part of Walker's novel. As Mister's household begins to disintegrate under the combined influence of Shug and Celie, the movie increasingly degenerates into cheap sentimentality. Celie learns that Nettie and her own two children by her father are living as missionaries in Africa. As a result, we are treated to dream sequences of elephants crashing through...
...time, and he and his wife have waited a long time for Patriots success. And Mrs. Wacker, who has seen just about all 19 of the previous Super Bowls, will be rooting for the Pats, she says, because she "has to be [a Patriots fan] to live in this household...
Some of the shapes, materials and images that resulted are currently on display in an exhibition at New York City's Whitney Museum, "High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design." The show, which includes 300 pieces of furniture, craftworks, tableware and household appliances, was assembled by six different curators and seems more the rough outline of a museum exhibit than a finished show. Indeed, in a gallery that is like the vast attic of some anonymous and impossibly trendy old American family--interesting, to be sure, but incoherent--the recurrent evocation of the future is one of the few themes reaffirmed...