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...words prove equal to this primordial plunge. Wilbur's poetry offers, before anything else, the pleasures of craft. "All That Is" conjures an urban evening scene populated by people working on newspaper crossword puzzles and described in the lingo of standard solutions...
...least, Marberger, 40, is winning the battle. He is determined to qualify as an LTS, or long-term survivor, lingo for someone who has lived with AIDS for three years or longer. It is a term that applies to very few people. According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, the survival rate for 4,200 AIDS patients whose condition was diagnosed between late 1978 and 1983 is 2% to 5%, nearly all of them male homosexuals who contracted the disease through sexual contact. Such slender evidence is often taken as proof by desperate members of the homosexual community...
PRETTY admirable, I thought, for a police officer from Central Square--not only knowing the lingo, but offering to chauffeur me home on the most crowded of streets. This police officer's concern should not have come as a surprise; after all, choosing a career in law enforcement implies a concern for the safety of the unprotected citizen...
There were bigger stars off the field than on it. Former M*A*S*H stars Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr, and Wayne Rogers took the field for the IBM team, tossing around football lingo to sell computers. The Smothers Brothers joked for Magnavox, and Eric Clapton sang the praises of Michelob...
Salomy also turns Brandon and Granillo from generic Ivy Leaguers into Harvard students and adapts their lingo appropriately. While all this is amusing, there is no real need...