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...there is? Some of the blame lies in human nature and our easy embrace of good news. There is something ineffably seductive about denial - and for gay men, whose sex lives have been overshadowed by the specter of an incurable disease, the temptation to believe, to abandon oneself to the idea of a cure, must have been nearly irresistible. Even appearances can compound the denial: Thanks to the developments in drug regimens, many HIV-positive people look perfectly healthy for years, their rosy cheeks and robust schedules meaning that potential sex partners cannot detect an infected person by appearance alone...
...moral urgency of Scrooge's ghost-bed conversion. The angel-wing stuff is silly. James Stewart, Donna Reed, Thomas Mitchell and company are all terrific in their parts, but that would not explain the near mythic stature of the thing, or why, Christmas after Christmas, one reluctantly finds oneself tearing up without knowing what the weeping is about...
...hands were taking just what they needed, a sign they were there out of commitment. And in a meeting with his staff the next morning, he drew on the work of a Scottish mountain climber, W.H. Murray: "Until one is committed, there is hesitancy...the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too." Tearful campaign workers lined the walls a few moments later as Gore announced to reporters: "It's a new campaign...
...through a hole in the door of the Modern Art Gallery without the management's knowledge." Others, like Nomura Hitoshi's "'Moon' Score" (a piece of music written to the phases of the moon) or Wei Guangqing's "Suicide Series" (a series of photographs demonstrating different ways of killing oneself) are at once emotionally haunting, spiritually probing and subtly ironic. It is this whimsical refusal to accept easy categorization which both characterizes conceptualism and makes this exhibit such a delight...
...family went on vacation and stopped at the Continental Divide. When my dad was posing my sister and me for a photo, I switched places to be on the western side of the divide because that was "closer to Los Angeles." In L.A., one could live all by oneself in a "security building" like Sabrina or in a beach house like Jill. Granted, as a grownup the closest I ever got was a one-bedroom across from Lake Michigan. But still I got the career-girl life I dreamed of. Sometimes I even get paid to watch...