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...Square is like a collage or patchwork quilt built in pieces, but each piece is self sufficient and we have to make each piece more successful into itself," Nichols said...
...plot itself is sometimes suspended altogether for moody dance sequences, slide shows of the AIDS quilt and sights of Baltimore. In these interludes the poignancy of The Baltimore Waltz becomes clearest, indicating the links between the satire of the play itself and its deadly serious subtext, AIDS...
...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...