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...anybody ready for 24 hours of chuckles, grins and guffaws? Boosters point out that the public's appetite for comedy seems almost insatiable. Seven of the ten top-grossing movies of 1988 were comedies, as are eight of the ten current top-rated TV series. Cable channels like HBO and Showtime have made comedy specials a staple of their schedules, while vintage sitcoms are being perpetually recycled across the dial...
...public seems to be tolerant of the notion that gay couples should be allowed more of the rights now accorded to married couples. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted by the firm of Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 54% agreed that "homosexual couples should be permitted to receive medical and life- insurance benefits from their partner's insurance policies." Yet there is little support for gay marriages: 69% said such arrangements should not be made legal, and 75% felt that gay couples should not be allowed to adopt children...
Despite this public resistance, legalizing some form of marriage for gay couples is probably the logical outcome of the drive for domestic-partnership rights. "Given the fact that we already allow legal gay relationships," writes Andrew Sullivan in the New Republic, "what possible social goal is advanced by framing the law to encourage those relationships to be unfaithful, undeveloped and insecure?" Marriage involves the obligation to support each other both in sickness and in health and to share financial benefits and burdens. It implies, at least in theory, a commitment to a long-term and monogamous relationship. The advent...
Michael and Kitty Dukakis have in a year experienced an extraordinary fall from grace. Sixteen months ago, they stood, a charmed political pair, before a roaring Democratic Convention. Today they struggle to hold together their public and private lives...
Early this year she began speaking out eagerly on the issue of substance abuse. Her schedule of public appearances soon quickened. Elegant and direct in front of audiences, Kitty was in enthusiastic demand. She whisked off to speak in the Midwest, then to Greece and back in 72 hours, then out again across the country. Her distraught husband watched in alarm. He knew well his wife's deep insecurities. "Kitty can't stand being out of the limelight," he told a close aide. "I don't know what...