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...bars or cruising certain streets. (One result: the rate of alcoholism among homosexuals is estimated at 20% to 30%, three to four times the rate among all adult Americans.) Today Washington, D.C., has more than 80 homosexual organizations, and Boston, with 70. even has one for overweight lesbians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: How Gay Is Gay? | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...safety to have a bureaucratic nightmare or maze of red tape." The studies, presidential commissions and congressional hearings inspired by the Three Mile Island incident threaten to degenerate into pro forma inspections of surface material. If no salient conclusions are drawn and no gutsy probing of the flabby and overweight NRC takes place. Three Mile Island will fade as one of the many nuclear mishaps shoved into obscurity behind the powerful dollars of the nation's energy industry...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: After the Fallout | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

While the flaky issue is subject to interpretation, the wildness issue is not. After a brilliant football and baseball career at Verdugo Hills High School in Los Angeles (the San Francisco Giants drafted him after graduation) Keyte came to Harvard a few pounds overweight and lacking in concentration. In 24 1/3 innings pitched as a freshmen, the southpaw yielded 26 walks and 14 earned runs...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Southpaw Keyte Is on Target for Crimson Batsmen | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, describing Elizabeth Taylor in his comic strip Doonesbury: "A tad overweight, but with violet eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 29, 1979 | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...last public debate between Hatch and his Democratic opponent Edward J. King is over. Dick Mastrangelo, Hatch's not-so-very-confident and slightly overweight campaign manager, raises his hand for silence. "Now, we're all very proud of Frank. He did a real good job tonight. You heard him. But you also heard those poll results. That's what I'm looking at. As far as I'm concerned this race starts today, and it's a dead heat now. Five days and 10 hours. We have to get out there and work. If he loses...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: You Sure You Want a Governor? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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