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...ringing success, in part because conventioneers were distracted by the many "agreements" they were supposed to keep in mind. In deference to those suffering from "environmental illnesses," the NLC prohibited any perfume or clothing washed in scented soaps. The ban was enforced by a sentry wearing a surgical mask. Another guideline called for "parity" at all conference events. Thus half of all committee members had to be "lesbians of color," 20% had to be lesbians with disabilities and at least 5% of the members "old lesbians" (definition: "over 50 with a history of ageism activism"). In some areas, however, organizers...
...propagated it, imposed a clear discipline and aesthetic on a new, inchoate art. By the 1950s she was the biggest dance celebrity in the country. She could inflame almost any audience, and she was a genius at dealing with donors and the press. Her personal flair -- her Easter Island mask of a face, her extravagantly theatrical wardrobe -- made her slightest gestures, onstage or off, indelible...
...estimated surplus of $74 billion this year, $83 billion next year and $225 billion by the year 2000. Charging the government with "extortion," Moynihan claims that this "trust fund" is being improperly counted as general revenue when the federal budget is written each year and is being used to mask the real size of the budget deficit. Besides, Moynihan contends, the Social Security tax is one of the country's most regressive levies, putting a greater burden on middle- and low-level earners than does the income tax. "It's time the American worker got a break," he says. "Average...
...Journals of John Cheever is not scheduled to be published by Knopf until November, but four long excerpts have already appeared in the New Yorker. They have occasioned more chatter and speculation than anything the author published in his lifetime, because they reveal a private face entirely unlike the mask that Cheever contrived for public view...
...military network, which is broadcasting the most comprehensive schedule of programming ever provided for fighting forces. In a region where a night of R. and R. means downing a couple of cans of nonalcoholic beer and practicing the steps to a new Marine-invented dance, the "Gas Mask Rag," the outside diversion is welcomed. "It is very important to keep up morale in the midst of such a lonely and isolating experience as a war in a desert," says Army Lieut. Colonel Robert Dawson, deputy director of the military broadcasting center in Los Angeles, which gathers the bulk...