Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plague carries its own stinging stigma, in that most AIDS victims have been homosexual males. Thus there is ambivalence among artists when the media disclose deaths caused by AIDS. Is the press spreading information or incrimination? Further, artists do not die only of AIDS, and the disease does not kill only artists. Says Hoffman: "I was going through my address book the other day to see who was gone. Among the 16, there was a plumber, a computer genius, a cop. AIDS attacks a cross section of humanity. But artists get the notoriety, and that gives people a false sense...
...fans, who are usually well aware of hot new reputations in Europe. One reason may be that the company already had two fine American basses in James Morris and Paul Plishka; another is that Artistic Director James Levine tends to favor his own discoveries. There was also the perceived stigma of the City Opera; the two companies may be geographical neighbors, but they are artistic strangers. "There were lots of theories," notes Ramey. "One of them was that I was such a big star at City Opera that people wouldn't pay $60 to hear me at the Met when...
...Robert, an entrepreneur, for 31 years before the couple were divorced in 1984, is seeking damages of more than $2.5 million. The manager of a record company in Manhattan, she says she had few reservations about filing a suit charging Robert with giving her herpes. "There's a stigma," she says, "but I have to conquer those feelings because I know I have to do this...
...insistently argued that candor and condoms are more effective public-health tools than sermons on chastity. Last week Koop was the lone Administration dissenter from a plan for widespread AIDS testing. His argument: "I don't think anyone should be forced to have a test, in view of the stigma that goes along with AIDS these days...
...mind the walk either. It's a shorter walk to the shuttle bus than it is from Eliot to the yard. The stigma attached to the Quad is totally undeserved," Mooney says...