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...like to be a lesbian these days. While I cannot speak from personal experience about what it is like to be a lesbian in the '90s, the film confronts, draws out and discusses very openly such sterotypes of lesbians as butch or short-haired, combat-boot-wearing nose-ring-touting macho sluts...
Angela learned a clever trick to get attention. She knew that if she pulled the cardiac sensors off her chest, alarms would ring and nurses would come running. By April, Angela was playing outside her ventilator for "sprints" of two to four hours several times a day, and once for as long as eight hours. Though she remained a little under the average weight for her age, so steady and secure was her progress that the medical team cut back its daily * discussion of her case to a weekly assessment and predicted that she would be going home by early...
...hard to argue with that, but family-sensitive news does ring some journalistic alarm bells. Cleansing newscasts of violence may be a healthy corrective to the overdose of Bobbitts and Buttafuocos in TV news. But if it means soft-pedaling or avoiding stories because they might upset viewers, the trend could be troubling. "In some cases," notes David Bartlett, president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association, "good journalism demands that we disturb our audience." For now, however, the family-sensitive boomlet has brought a dose of restraint to local news -- and, for viewers who already have tabloid choices aplenty...
...papers the previous September. None of the editorial comments or public eulogies mentioned the true sources of the old man's fortune, although McIlvaine the newspaperman knows what they were: Pemberton had run illegal slave ships out of New York harbor, with the connivance of Boss Tweed's ring, and had also profitably supplied Union troops during the Civil War with substandard goods -- "boots that fell apart, blankets that dissolved in rain, tents that tore at the grommets, and uniform cloth that bled...
...welfare. "She lives home with Mom and Dad, and the $158 she gets every two weeks amounts to an allowance," Anderson says. "And she gives a lot of it to the boy." The welfare check binds a boy and girl together, just as a baby can. "There's no ring involved, but the boy comes to expect his share of the check. Sometimes he'll demand his share from the girl and fight about it, saying, 'If it weren't for me, you wouldn't be getting this check...