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...than 20 years ago, before she came out, she was raped by an acquaintance "who knew enough about me to know I was a lesbian. The man said he was going to teach me how to act like a woman if it killed me." Taylor is still subjected to rude remarks on street corners. Tomatoes have been mashed inside her mailbox. Her partner's daughter has been harassed. But Taylor will not change her life -- nor will she leave. "All of my family lives in the area. I feel I have the right to live in my own hometown...
...selling off its office- automation division in 1984 after investing more than $2 billion in it. Microsoft could be next, warns Richard Shaffer, editor of ComputerLetter. "Here's yet another company pursuing the elusive dream of the paperless office," he says. "It might also be in for a rude awakening...
...25th anniversary of '68 is a good time to reflect, calmly and philosophically, on these deep, underlying choices. On one hand we know that anti-authoritarianism for its own sake easily degenerates into a rude and unfocused defiance: Revolution, as Abbie Hoffman put it, "for the hell of it." Certainly '68 had its wretched excesses as well as its moments of glory: the personal tragedy of lives undone by drugs and sex, the heavy cost of riots and destruction. One might easily conclude that the ancient rules and hierarchies are there for a reason -- they've worked, more or less...
Since 1970, Hughes has filled our magazine's pages with vigorous commentary written at a high intellectual pitch. Yet he never fails to make his subjects appealing and accessible -- with humor, apt social context and, more than occasionally, a rude remark...
...speech is vintage Rudnick -- a party wine with a bouquet of sentiment and the kick of rude truth. To the tart social wit of gay writers from Oscar Wilde to Joe Orton he adds irrepressible high spirits -- a tonic when so much of literature has the terminal glums. This Renaissance jester is a yea-sayer, a missionary for joy. "Usually when I'm asked why I write," says Rudnick, 35, "I reply, 'To avoid a day job.' But the truth is that there are people in real life I want to honor. It's easy to write about despair...