Word: lighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Readers can be persuaded to care, however, if the memoirist is Reynolds Price (The Source of Light, Kate Vaiden), one of a few writers whose full- length fictions do honor to the term regional novel. Price's region is central North Carolina, where he has lived for most of his 56 years. His father Will was a traveling salesman who fought a lifelong battle against alcohol and financial insecurity. His mother Elizabeth was one of the genteel metal magnolias who, despite generosity to their black servants, Price notes, were the "chief conveyors" of the racist code that cursed...
...secret study, organized by a San Francisco-based group of AIDS activists called Project Inform, came to light after one of the patients died. He went into a coma, later awoke but then choked while vomiting -- ten days after his first Compound-Q treatment. The FDA has launched an investigation of the study...
...beneficence, the sun is not too kind to those who, intentionally or not, overexpose themselves to its warming rays. While most of the harmful solar radiation is absorbed by the ozone layer, enough ultraviolet light gets through the atmosphere to endanger the unwary...
...wrinkling and sagging. Of greater concern, it causes as many as half a million new cases of skin cancer every year. Most of these are basal or squamous cell carcinomas, which have high cure rates. But solar radiation may be a cause of melanoma, which can be fatal. Ultraviolet light apparently weakens the immune system; after a severe sunburn, some people suffer outbreaks of oral herpes or other disorders. Excessive exposure aggravates cases of chicken pox and can be especially dangerous, even fatal, to victims of lupus...
...other side holds that Mapplethorpe's work is pornography posing as art. His works, this faction contends, should be shown privately, preferably in a red-light district. In fact, some of Mapplethorpe's work is so graphic that if authorities had chosen to do so, they could have prosecuted him for child pornography, which has no First Amendment protection...