Word: quilted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...again top the formal agenda. But it is fair to surmise that it is their own jobs that are really at stake. Voters in the European Parliament elections of the past two weeks gave many leaders a sound drubbing -- while handing a few an unexpected boost -- in a crazy-quilt pattern that presages considerable political upheaval in the year to come...
...overall figures mask a crazy quilt of variations. Geographically, the picture varies not just by regions but by neighboring states or even within states. In New England, Massachusetts and New Hampshire are growing strongly, but Connecticut has been knocked virtually prostrate by cutbacks in its three main industries: defense, shipbuilding and insurance. In Texas the Rio Grande Valley, for decades the poor stepchild of the economy, is flourishing because of trade with neighboring Mexico. But other parts of the state are troubled by defense cutbacks. Texas Instruments, after slashing worldwide employment from 70,000 in 1990 to 59,500 today...
...failed, like most other deaf AIDS organizations, to fulfill a basic requirement for steady government funding: a tally of the infected. Until recently, deaf activists who were asked for casualty figures would simply cite the number of panels dedicated to the deaf dead in the huge Names Project Memorial quilt, an undercounting any hearing AIDS group would deem ridiculous. Serious assays now start at 300; estimates of HIV-positive deaf run from 7,000 to as high as 26,000. But the deaf world's varied demographics and idiosyncratic lines of communication conspire against precision. "We have tried to collect...
...personal meditation of enormous poetry. The director, with disturbing honesty, addresses the irreconcilable differences between those who are terminally ill and those who are not. The film forces the viewer to confront the hypocrisy surrounding AIDS. While awareness is necessary, there is a gulf separating those exhibiting a quilt and those whose names are inscribed on it. Reflecting on living with disease and on mortality, Jarman concludes, "For blue, there are no boundaries or solutions...
...Philadelphia is just one panel, not the entire quilt," says John Gallagher, San Francisco correspondent for the Advocate, the nation's oldest gay magazine. "But as a primer for people who are new to the issue, it is pretty effective." Tony Kushner, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning play Angels in America, believes the film has strong lessons for the straight majority. "It tells them, If you are going to be a decent human being, you can't just casually despise a huge segment of the human race. And if you are going to address AIDS, you are going...