Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lice are usually transmitted "between sexual partners during intimate physical contact," Dr. Leslie Norins, former chief of the U.S. Public Health Service's Venereal Disease Research Laboratory said yesterday...
Francine Gray knows the French. Stephanie's remembrance of things past flashes with literary style and wit. Remarkable siblings and sexual suitors are summoned up, often in hilarious detail, though they are mostly kept frozen at the edge of caricature by Stephanie's satiric perceptions. The author is at home in emigré salons and ancient country holdings-where the landscaping is by Le Nôtre and the new power mower is by John Deere. When the ancestral crypt, where Stephanie's father lies, gets too crowded, the family simply shifts the bones of those...
Anyway, the other dance is being sponsored by PUMA, the Prostitutes Union of Massachusetts. Called the "HOOKERS' Masquerade Ball," the organizers are extending a special invitation to people concerned with the rights of sexual minorities in the state. It will begin at 8 p.m. at The Club, 823 Main St., Cambridge. Tickets cost $5 and can be bought in advance at Cloth-ware in Cambridge, with the proceeds going to fight for decriminalization of the trade...
Sarah McCluskey as Candida is a simple case of miscasting. McCluskey evokes only about half the role; she is all matron, and no sexual charmer. Part of the trouble is that she is visually wrong for the part, far too stocky and imposing; more important, she never quite manages to summon up the vitality both men are continually extolling. She's at her best in the last scene, when the script calls for a quiet, calm delivery of her lines...
Although the Mississippi ruling was not that the tests themselves were inherently prejudiced, the question of racial, sexual and cultural bias in ETS tests has been coming up for years. Brill cites an ETS study that found a direct, consistent correlation between seven categories of family income and SAT scores: students from wealthy families have higher median board scores than middle-income students, who in turn score higher than low income students. Brill goes on to say that "other ETS data, which ETS Executive Vice President Solomon said could not be made public because 'it would be misinterpreted,' show that...