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Smilgis' own education in the subject began while she was Los Angeles bureau chief for PEOPLE magazine from 1982 to 1986. From there, she co- ordinated the cover story on the last days of Rock Hudson and the effects of the crisis on the homosexual community. "Often, a specter of death seems to hang around the victims," she notes. Therefore she was shocked to hear that a business acquaintance had died of AIDS two months after she had praised him "for looking fit and trim." Assessing the potential for heterosexual transmission is complicated by the virus' long incubation period. "What...
Today, strangely enough, it is possible to imagine a future in which Lady Chatterley might again be banned for setting a harmful example, but this time in a grimly different sense. The specter of the deadly and incurable disease called AIDS -- acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- has cast a shadow over the American sexual landscape. Since AIDS is chiefly transmitted through sex, it is forcing partners to a painful re-examination of their bedroom practices. The heedless abandon of Lawrencian lovers begins to seem dangerous and irresponsible, for oneself and for others. Instead of a transfixed gaze, lovers may feel they have...
Coping with the specter of AIDS is particularly difficult for the heirs of the American sexual revolution, probably smaller in numbers than advertised but nonetheless vehement in the assertion of a freer, more open set of mores for sexual conduct. Should AIDS spread in the most pessimistic proportions projected, there may finally sound a general alert, resulting in an increase in monogamy, in abstinence, in widespread acceptance of tough new rules of the game. But unless and until that point comes, the casualties may needlessly mount...
...soon as Kathie begins to convince Santiago that he is, in fact, a hero, the specter of his wife, Ana, appears. She reminds him that the Marxist study groups, "bored you to tears...
Suddenly the specter of an all-out trade war between the U.S. and the twelve- member European Community loomed larger than ever. In Palm Springs, Calif., where President Reagan was vacationing, U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter announced last week that the Administration was prepared to slam the door by Jan. 30 on more than $400 million worth of West European imports, including Italian white wine, French cognac and British gin. The Europeans came right back with threatened new barriers against such U.S. products as corn-gluten feed, soy cakes, rice and almonds. Yeutter spoke darkly of possible "major disruptions...