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...road movie set to music. It's one measure of their singular achievement that disparate as their sources may be, they all focus finely on Nelson's restless spirit. Across the Borderline is as achingly, bracingly personal as any record he's made since the seminal Red Headed Stranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiritual Stocktaking | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

Many gay leaders rushed to discredit the 1% figure, pointing out that people are reluctant to discuss their most intimate sexual nature with a clipboard- bearing stranger, even in surveys like this one where the interviews were conducted face to face in the subject's home and with a guarantee of confidentiality. "People have good reason not to be honest about their homosexual behavior," says Frances Kunreuther, the executive director of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, the nation's largest social service agency for gay youth, "especially in a country where same-sex relations are illegal in 24 states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shrinking Ten Percent | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...violators of a woman's right to privacy, even when they approach her with information on adoption and support for pregnant women. This is no different from what Planned Parenthood workers do when they give out pamphlets on abortion. It is no more intrusive to have a perfect stranger tell you how to have your baby adopted than to be told about how to have it aborted...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: 'To Peaceably Assemble' | 4/6/1993 | See Source »

...child, isolated inside his best instincts, survive for long, when family, school, class, the whole sordid world conspire to crush him? Leo can't. But Leolo can; his autobiography is saved by the one stranger who might have helped him. Certainly Lauzon, who testifies that this grotesque family portrait is based on fact, survived and thrived -- to make a beautiful film. His story, in this boldly voluptuous telling, reminds us of two truths: no remembered childhood is so bizarre that it cannot have occurred; and the surest way to purge demons is to impale them on the page or screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Childhood | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

Balog, 40, is no stranger to wildlife photography. He has traveled to Kenya, China and Siberia, and his photographs have appeared in LIFE, National Geographic, Geo and Smithsonian. Balog's 1990 book, Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife, a collection of animal portraits taken in zoos, circuses and on wildlife ranches around the world, won the prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence. Though this is his first TIME cover, his work has already been featured in the magazine, including a photo of a 13-year-old teaching two septuagenarians at a computer terminal, which ran in TIME's Machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: Mar. 22, 1993 | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

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