Word: morrison
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...McMillan, the most self-revelatory writer in the world--this week, anyway--she grouses that "nobody would dream of asking Toni Morrison who she is sleeping with." Later, her Jamaican friend Plummer, a slim, amiable fellow who studies hotel management at Diablo Valley College, pokes his head into her cluttered office. He admits that he is "flattered" to be the model for Stella's Winston Shakespeare, though "I don't really read books." "But he will," says McMillan, "or else he's moving." Laughter all around...
INTENSE ATTENTION HAS BEEN FOCUSED on HIV testing as a result of boxer Tommy Morrison's riveting disclosures in the past few weeks [HEALTH, Feb. 26]. But there is a serious risk that legislative, civic and sports leaders will jump to HIV testing as the solution without doing anything further. That would be a shame. If HIV testing is all that is done, little will be accomplished to either prevent the transmission of HIV among boxers or to improve boxing's safety. Those who advocate HIV testing to the exclusion of other solutions take as automatic the premise that bleeding...
...extensive reading list focuses primarily on twentieth century American writers such as Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, Jack London and William Faulkner...
...find themselves covered with a bloody spray. That's always been part of boxing's primal appeal. But what if the blood that flows so freely in the ring contains the virus that causes AIDS? That was the issue on everyone's mind last week when heavyweight fighter Tommy Morrison confirmed, just three weeks after Magic Johnson's triumphant return to basketball, that he too is HIV positive...
Jerry Garcia: Ashes reportedly scattered in the Pacific Ocean Jimi Hendrix: Greenwood Cemetery, Renton, Washington Janis Joplin: Ashes on coastline of Marin County, California Jim Morrison: Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, steps away from romantic composer and pianist Frederic Chopin Hank Williams: Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama Bobby Darin: Body donated to UCLA medical research Buddy Holly: Lubbock City Cemetery, Lubbock, Texas Elvis Presley: Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee, in a mausoleum, alongside his mother