Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rightful name, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Call it Dangerous Liaisons. Call it, if you must, Valmont. But in any case it looks as if we can now call it a day for stage and movie adaptations of Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos's intricate, instructive novel of sexual gamesmanship among the 18th century French aristocracy. For Milos Forman and Jean-Claude Carriere, while fiddling with the plot of this deliciously nasty tale, have studiously embalmed its spirit. Valmont arrives stiffened by the elegant, inert formalism of Forman's direction, and chilled by Carriere's all too sober respect...
California is looked at the way Italy used to be viewed in England. It's sexual and dangerous. Something could happen. A person could change. There is an element of hostility to Los Angeles that has a racist undertone. The fact that this is a Latin region, with its patios of bougainvillaea and its streets named for Spanish saints and psychotics. When you breathe the air, you become infiltrated with the idea that you are in another region entirely...
...Marines' search for "A Few Good Men" does not include gay men. When the Army exhorts us to "Be All That We Can Be," they don't want us to be lesbians or bisexuals. Members of a sexual minority who are out of the closet and proud would not pose a security risk, but we are still barred from serving our country if we feel a duty to do this through the military. This is because the military plays on homophobia and pejorative stereotypes of gays in its dehumanizing process. The terror of being perceived as homosexual is used...
...Help For Sexual Addictions: Comprehensive evaluation and effective treatment for compulsive sexual behaviors. I am a board-certified, Harvard Medical School-affiliated psychiatrist...
...month to go before our second annual A.W.A.R.E. week, I can hardly believe how blind the Harvard community is to its own ethnocentrism. Most of us are aware of the evils of racism and avoid at all costs the appearance of prejudice against those of different color, religion, or sexual orientation. But we are blind to the more subtle and pervasive issue of ethnocentrism in the classroom...