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...fistful of them, twisting and dancing in the backseat of the Thunderbird convertible, tears of madness streaming down his cheeks and down onto his black pinstripe suit--the law professor, I think, the other Ginsburg--or is it Ginsberg?--Ginsbirg?--homonymous, at any rate, and a poet, the queer, the bundle of tie-died rags crumpled still sleeping at his brother's feet, sleeping off the daybreak or maybe paralyzed from the South African toadskin the freaked-out hitchhiker passed off as Nirvana several thousand moments ago in California, back there in a distant space before the angry pumped...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: On the Road | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...money is a queer issue for me and I have mixed feelings about it. I did not write it to be sold," says Thernstrom, who is currently a graduate student in Cornell's M.F.A. Creative Writing Program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recent Alumna's Summa Thesis Reaps Large Rewards | 10/16/1987 | See Source »

Boston resident Todd McKay told the committee that police officers insinuated that he and a male friend who "were sitting in [a] car talking," were having sex. "The police yelled `Hey faggot' and `Fucking queer' and then arrested me," McKay said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Police Face Allegations of Discrimination | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

...development. The first attempts with pit technology entailed the digging of great holes in the earth, and then luring their enemies inside by placing cod scallop meat at the bottom. Yet this method proved ineffectual, for even back then no one really cared for the taste of this queer delicacy...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: A Call to Arms | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...Malraux and observes that the Frenchman has a tic that "is something like a snort from the nose, and when he becomes excited and voluble, it sounds like the exhaust from a car." He visits W.H. Auden in a completely unheated New York City loft. "Wystan started up some queer kind of little stove, but we sat in our overcoats and our breath went up in vapor." Vladimir Nabokov comes for a visit, and they start arguing about how various English and Russian words should be pronounced. Wilson concludes that the novelist has "something in him rather nasty -- the cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never Apologize, Always Explain the Fifties | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

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