Word: recoiling
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...know -- or, in the words of the Pentagon, they would rather not ask and they would rather that gays didn't tell. When confronted with the likelihood that at least some of their children, or those of relatives or close friends, will grow up gay, even liberal parents recoil in dismay. Verline Freeman, 31, a word processor in New York City, describes herself as "tolerant" and says she has gay friends. Yet she objects to her sons, 13 and 6, being taught about homosexuality in school, and has never discussed it at home. "It probably is important...
...large-spirited American not like Las Vegas, or at least smile at the notion of it? On the other hand, how can any civilized person not loathe Las Vegas, or at least recoil at its relentlessness...
...Tested for HIV+?" and "Hearing the Results," which explain how to get tested and how to tell others the outcome. MTV Europe offers the human angle, profiling a day in the life of a "Buddy," a young volunteer who cares for an AIDS patient. And Asian parents may recoil in shock when MTV Asia broadcasts safe-sex information to their kids from a Thai condom factory...
...Colorado case had little to do with gays. Homosexuality is not my favorite topic. I regard it as a misfortune because it prevents one from sharing in valuable human experiences, but there are other, worse misfortunes. Although I do regard homosexual practices as shameful, I do not recoil in horror at them. I think I understand the ambivalence of gays toward conventional morality--sometimes flaunting their scorn for it, sometimes wanting it on their side. Here is a very human contradiction...
Granted, the old Greenbergian version of Modernism -- the idea that art advances by shedding its superfluities and ending up in a state of idealized blandness, flat frontal sheets of color, a discourse of the medium alone -- cuts no ice today. Granted, too, the recoil from such prescriptions was both inevitable and justified. And yet color-field painting did produce some very beautiful and rigorous works, and it is hard to see how an exhibition that includes six Jasper Johnses and five Andy Warhols could not have found room for a Morris Louis Unfurled or a Kenneth Noland target...