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...said, was spreading rapidly. The number of cases was increasing geometrically, doubling every ten months, and the threat to heterosexuals appeared to be growing. But it was the shocking news two weeks ago of Actor Rock Hudson's illness that finally catapulted AIDS out of the closet, transforming it overnight from someone else's problem, a "gay plague," to a cause of international alarm. AIDS was suddenly a front-page disease, the lead item on the evening news and a frequent topic on TV talk shows. There seemed no end to the reports...
...they must also preserve enough dignity to bring off sustained poetic speeches, including a climactic account of a midair battle between an eagle and a cat who doom each other to a fatal fall. The showiest part is the father (Eddie Jones), a brutal alcoholic who undergoes an overnight conversion, too late, into a sober and responsible man. His place as the family menace is then taken over by the son (Bradley Whitford), a sensible if none too bright handyman who becomes a bedeviled catatonic. Karen Tull is a giddy, then abruptly deadly daughter. The most remarkable aspect of Director...
...Shadow. As they made their way to work on the morning of Aug. 6, residents of New York, Boston, Minneapolis and 370 other cities in the U.S. and abroad discovered that artists had been at work overnight, painting silhouettes of people on streets. The silhouettes were intended as reminders of the Hiroshima victims who, caught outdoors by the blast, were vaporized, leaving no trace except for profiles etched on Hiroshima sidewalks. The arresting images, usually created with plastic stencils and rollers dipped in whitewash, were the work of the International Shadow Project, a network of 10,000 volunteer painters...
Virtually overnight, Chongqing has become the largest city not only in China but in the world. Territory to the north and west has been annexed, so that the population now encompasses 13.89 million people.[*] Some residents live in newly built apartment blocks, others in air-raid shelters dating back to the war. All seem to be in constant, industrious motion. Chongqing, as a result, is a swirling cauldron of noise and smoke as buzzing motorbikes and overloaded buses strain to climb its steep hills...
...student hears the term mizu-shobai for the first time and later learns what it means: the water trade, the fly-by-night world of bars, baths and brothels to which Ichimonji has given him an introduction. The next morning, the visitor wakes up with the woozy feeling that "overnight he had arrived in Japan...