Word: nonpersonal
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...been members of the movies' creepiest underclass: the men more feminine than the heroine, foils to make the hero look more masculine; the women as big as truck drivers and miles meaner. And that was on the rare occasions when they were there at all. Mostly, homosexuals have had nonperson status in movies. What a destiny, in movies or in life: to be either reviled or invisible...
...history book. In Germany, where he was once sued for punching a man who called him a "Jew kisser," he was an embarrassment to all those who knew something and did nothing. And because amnesia is the most convenient placebo for collective guilt, Schindler was essentially a nonperson. In the '70s Artur Brauner, a German Jew, tried to make a movie about Schindler but could not raise the money. Now, with the release of Spielberg's film and several documentaries on the subject, Schindler has become a strange kind of celebrity, gnawing from beyond the grave at Germany's restless...
...Bodeguita del Medio in Old Havana, they rail against the system, unconcerned that they might be overheard. At 21, Ricardo is just out of prison after serving a nine-month term: he got drunk and spat on a statue of independence hero Jose Marti. Now he is officially a nonperson and unable to find a job. "How am I supposed to live?" he asks bitterly. He earns his keep by "inventing," selling his jeans for 200 pesos, which fetched 40 lbs. of rice that he resold at quadruple the price...
Even Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat is reconciled. He is being treated officially as a nonperson by both Israel and the U.S., and the P.L.O. will be pointedly excluded from participating. Nonetheless, in an interview with TIME conducted last week at one of his safe houses in Tunisia, Arafat was specifically asked whether Baker was likely to succeed in setting up the conference. His reply: "Yes. According to a message I just received from Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin after his meeting with Mr. Baker, it will be at the end of this month." Moreover, Arafat made it clear...
Ousted from power in 1964, Nikita Khrushchev became a nonperson, living out his last seven years under virtual house arrest in the village of Petrovo- Dalneye, on the outskirts of Moscow. To keep himself going but also to make sure that his side of the story survived, Khrushchev dictated hundreds of hours of reminiscences. Many of the tapes were smuggled to the West, and Little, Brown published two volumes of memoirs: Khrushchev Remembers in 1970 and Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament...