Word: missions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have in the past. From Norman Mailer's White Negro we've gone to the Gay Hetero. As a side benefit, these characters allow networks to put affluent white boys on the air and call it diversity. (Indeed, the elderly animated pair Wally and Gus on the WB's Mission Hill are notable not so much for making out in the show's premiere as for proving that gay men don't vaporize after age 30.) But Spin City's Carter Heywood is the networks' only gay person of color, and we've scarcely seen working-class gays or bisexuals...
...interviewing women for The Vagina Monologues after she was "shocked" at the way a friend talked disparagingly about her own sex organ. The work has become the centerpiece of an annual effort on Valentine's Day to raise money to fight violence against women. "You know when your life mission shows up and you can no longer avoid it," she says. "I suddenly realized I had to do something major...
Once again New York's bully-boy Mayor has demonstrated his disregard for the Constitution by his cynical manipulation of religious sensibilities for selfish political ends. The Brooklyn Museum is fulfilling its mission; Giuliani's only aim is personal aggrandizement. MICHAEL A. JAMES Los Angeles...
...what the school calls a Safe Team. It includes all the student's teachers, a guidance counselor, the school's part-time social worker and its police liaison officer. The team's first concern is to get the troubled student the help he obviously needs. But there's another mission, and an undercurrent of worry that is new since Conyers and Columbine: any report of a threat, however veiled, is taken seriously and pounced upon immediately. Any Webster student who poses a danger to himself is considered a potential danger to others...
...kids in the school and some of the worst, but like many teachers, it's the ones in the middle she is concerned about. "In trying to be something for everybody, we're not doing an intensive job for any group," she says. "There's something noble about this mission, but it doesn't always serve students well...