Word: hugging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...himself off from life. "Giving up sex is absolutely justifiable these days," Rudnick says, "but it's also a terrible idea. I think it's a universal truth that human contact is an absolute necessity for all people. Whatever it takes, whether it's sex, or a hug, or a touch, it's critical." Jeffrey's eventual decision to once again embrace sex, says Rudnick, "represents a return to humanity...
LEST IT BE THOUGHT THAT BILL Clinton -- a man with a propensity to hug, a devotion to Thelonious Monk and his own jogging track -- is altogether too tidy a baby boomer emblem, members of his generation ought to ask themselves: How many of them, if they were about to become President, would leave a black- tie party with Barbra Streisand to attend a midnight church service off- limits to cameras and reporters...
...while you're there, tell stories. Touch. Hug. There's no pressure. Sharing is just about the most romantic thing I know of, and it might even burn some calories...
...discharged in 1987. "Their womanhood is not threatened like a man's manhood is when he's around a gay man." Perhaps women's experience with male sexual harassment has made them less skittish about other forms of torment. Or perhaps it is simply less taboo for women to hug and kiss in public...
Many parents, in fact, want to throttle Barney as much as their children want to hug him. "The kids love it," says Leah Horton of Atlanta, a mother of three, "but you don't want to be in the same room when it's on." Cloying and sappy as Barney's manner seems to adults, it, like the rest of the amateurish production, is carefully calculated to keep a two-year-old transfixed. "We kind of have to say, 'Bear with us as we talk to your children,' " explains executive producer Dennis DeShazer, "because it is a mystery...