Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinatown, "they used to think you were Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan. ; Then they thought you must own a laundry or restaurant. Now they think all we know how to do is sit in front of a computer." Says Thomas Law, a student at Brooklyn Law School: "We're sick and tired of being seen as the exotic Orientals...
...street, in a Shi'ite district of southern Beirut, Glass immediately sought help. At an all-night bakery he claimed to be a Canadian of Lebanese origin who needed a doctor for his sick daughter. To have told the bakery patrons the truth, he feared, would have frightened them and perhaps even led to his recapture. But a passing motorist quickly gave him a lift to the Summerland, two miles away. The Syrians then took him to Damascus, and a day later he was home in London with his wife and five children...
...comic's traditional adversary relationship to power and, instead, parade an anarchic childishness. Their banner might have read HELL, NO, WE WON'T GROW UP. In Britain, Monty Python's Flying Circus tossed music-hall bawdry into a Dada format, and at home National Lampoon updated sick humor with a stinging Wasp edge. They were vicious; they were silly; they couldn't care less. And now someone had to shatter the lulling cadences of stand-up too. Who better than the child of Disneyland and Wittgenstein...
...abandon the insanity defense. The attorney is reportedly trying to strike a deal with prosecutors that will spare Harvey the death penalty. "My son has always been a good boy," Harvey's mother Goldie Harvey McKinney told the Cincinnati Post. "He's still a good boy. He's just sick, terribly sick. And he needs a good doctor...
...face of AIDS in America is changing; it is getting younger, darker, more feminine. Stories like Doris White's are becoming common in inner-city ghettos: every day someone else who got high is getting sick. So are their - lovers, and so are their children. Although nearly two-thirds of AIDS victims so far have been homosexual men, the rate of new infection among gays has declined. At the same time, the rate among blacks and Hispanics, particularly those who are intravenous drug users, is rising alarmingly. Medical experts warn that unless urgent actions are taken, AIDS may become...