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...imagination has served her well for the novel's Rockaway scenes--which emerge as perceptive, believeable, and realistic. No one will find Eisenstadt's characters as jaded and junky as Ellis' typical waste cases, and she is quite defensive about that difference. "I don't think my characters have slept with 72 people. They're not cynical about what's happened to them or what hasn't happened to them. They're not full of loathing and spite," Eisenstadt says. "They're just looking for love...
...open about these things, I must tell you that space travel is not the great adventure it's supposed to be. Lift-off on Sept. 29 was excruciating. My pulse raced to 200 beats a minute, and I ran a temperature. Incredibly, my partner Dryoma seems to have slept through the launch...
...prettiest one." Using airline passes, he traveled extensively and picked up men wherever he went. Dugas developed Kaposi's sarcoma, a form of skin cancer common to AIDS victims, in June 1980, before the epidemic had been perceived by physicians. Told later he was endangering anyone he slept with, Dugas unrepentantly carried on -- by his estimate, with 250 partners a year -- until his death in March 1984, adding countless direct and indirect victims. At least one man indignantly hunted him down. Dugas' charm proved unfailing: he sweet-talked the man into having sex again...
...find a sign or exhibit, some concrete acknowledgement that once blacks were enslaved there, bound up and put down there. And I expected the sign to say that was bad. But there was no sign, only a small marker near some small shacks. "This is where the slaves slept," it read...
...seven months the blond, chubby-cheeked twins ate, slept, cried, had their diapers changed, just like babies everywhere. But they gazed at the world around them from an awkward and virtually immobilizing position. The two were joined at the back of the head, with their faces turned Janus-like in opposite directions. Sitting up or crawling was impossible. By the time they were brought to Johns Hopkins Children's Center in August, they weighed a total of 30 lbs. -- too heavy and clumsy a bundle for their mother to carry easily...