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Remember Harry and Louise, the whiny yuppies who bad-mouthed Clinton's health-care bill to death? Well, meet their evil twins, Anne and John Paulk, the poster couple for the notion that homosexuality can be stopped if only heterosexuality is embraced. Once gay and unbelieving, Anne and John accepted Christ and then each other: one cured homosexual married one saved lesbian. There's a Jack for every Jill in the land of the Christian right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Praying Away the Gay | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...would not normally come forward," says UCLA law professor and former public defender Peter Arenella. "Some of them have valuable information; some do not. The Cosby case suggests that under appropriate circumstances such information will be credited." Credit came to So in the form of a check blown up poster-size to look like the jackpot in a Publishers Clearing House commercial. He pledged to donate part of the money to the Ennis William Cosby Foundation. "I'm not an angel," he said. "But I'm not as bad as many people like to think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Just Reward? | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...stretch Speedo slippers. No matter that a toupee, capped teeth and a partly unbuttoned shirt reveal a touch of vanity. At 73, the man best known for playing prophets and warriors is embracing a new role with gusto: president of the 127-year-old National Rifle Association. As poster pinup for America's muscular gun lobby, he isn't expected to do "nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have Gun, Will Travel | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...know where it's going." The crankers who show up at the clinic require, on average, four weeks of detox, often with the use of antipsychotic drugs, before the counselors can even get through to them. On a wall in the Rimrock recreation room hangs a homemade poster showing a medevac helicopter like those that land at nearby St. Vincent Hospital. The poster is intended to reassure paranoid recovering crankers, but many are so unstrung that they fear the helicopter is after them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

Then, to cover up your bare walls, stop off atPix Poster Cellar (elusively located on the secondfloor of 1105 Mass. Ave.) and find some artsyprints. Newbury Comics on JFK St. is anotherposter palace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOP `TILL YOU DROP | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

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