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...cotton shirt, smoke and starch, and his soul, as if that, too, were a thing to be smelled." But a sudden glimpse of his unstable temper makes her realize how inexperienced she is in the ways of the world and propels her into the arms of a simpler, safer and younger admirer. The sense of yearning fills and illuminates almost all the other stories, of small-town Madame Bovaries with insensitive husbands, of divorces who can be simultaneously tough-minded and bewildered: "I left my husband. Nearly six months ago, but I still can't believe it. I keep thinking...
...screenwriter Callie Khouri isn't just fronting for Hugh Hefner, Thelma & Louise is a movie with legs. Long after the movie is done entertaining, it stirs up questions about why men and women remain mysteries to each other. It has its small triumphs. Susan Sarandon makes Hollywood a little safer for older actresses; she fearlessly plays next to someone 10 years younger. And at least Thelma and Louise stop short of emulating Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, who use their remaining ammunition to go out in a blaze of testosteronic glory. The movie may not have the impact...
...going to have it because there's a 1-in-10,000 chance I'll get AIDS'? I doubt it." One positive side effect of AIDS is that it has forced major improvements in the U.S. health-care system. The strange truth is that most Americans may be safer now than they were before the coming of AIDS...
Flanked by half a dozen city officials and five cyclists in full protective gear, U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy (D-Mass) urged Cambridge residents Monday to hit the streets with bike pedals instead of gas pedals as part of a new Congressional drive to promote safer and cleaner alternatives to driving cars...
...loss of interest in life. Older children may be shuttled through a series of foster homes, never learning to love or trust a soul. Staying at home with an addicted mother who is actively participating in a rehabilitation program can, in many cases, be the more promising and safer route for the child. "Foster care is often so poor," says Dr. Evelyn Lipper, director of child development at New York Hospital- Cornell Medical Center. "Maybe these children are better off with their mothers...