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Many universities are sponsoring AIDS-education programs and classes. Two weeks ago, the University of California, Berkeley held a national symposium on "AIDS and the College Campus," attended by about 435 representatives from nearly 90 colleges, at which the reportedly first straight safe-sex educational film, Norma and Tony, was shown. It indicated that there is much progress to be made in this new field. For 30 minutes, Norma and Tony painstakingly covered themselves with spermicides, condoms and latex squares before engaging in intercourse. The film was so cautiously clinical that a group of viewers quickly lost interest in Norma...
...book review "Searching for Norma Jeane" [January 26] left a sour taste in my mouth. The fact that Gloria Steinem is a woman (and the first) who has endeavored to write a major biography of Marilyn Monroe does, not give her some sort of credit of redressing a "sexist imbalance"--at least, not in substantive terms. Elizabeth L. Wurtzel correctly describes this biography--half photographs--as a "coffee table decoration". As such, the book continues a tradition of exploiting Monroe as an erotic object and as an object of greedy curiosity. On the other hand, one may consider this book...
...Marilyn: Norma Jeane does not, however, make the mistake of being merely a feminist interpretation of Monroe's life. Barris' photographs show us a playful woman who loved to drink champagne and run on the beach. The chapter titled "Fathers and Lovers" is a gossipy look at her love life, "The Woman Who Will Not Die" attempts to decipher the enduring mania for Marilyn, and "Who Would She Be Now?" offers a speculative look at what Monroe would be like if she were alive today...
...that, after all, is what our curiosity is all about. We know what Monroe was, but we wonder what she might have become. While Marilyn: Norma Jeane only perpetuates these useless questions, the answers it offers may help put them to rest...
Sympathetic Dallas fans abound. During his trial, one group of rapturous women was dubbed the "Dallas cheerleaders," and today others are pushing a petition to grant Dallas amnesty. They claim he did no wrong. Norma Hebbel, 61, explains, "Claude did what a lot of people would want to do. They should've given him a medal, not tried...