Word: vanguards
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...patient was a married man in his 60s. Nowadays, he's still married but more likely to be in his 50s. One trend that has started to worry public-health officials, however, is the growing recreational use of Viagra in some settings. Gay men seem to be at the vanguard of this trend. Viagra, often in combination with illegal drugs like ecstasy, enables patrons of sex clubs to have sex with more partners, which increases their risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) like syphilis and aids. "One out of three sexually active gay men at our STD clinics...
...Brando had it easier than Presley; for in pop, more than in acting, it's tough to remain in the vanguard. Consider the four overlapping phases of Elvis' music. Phase 1: At Sun Records, he borrowed blues from blacks and country songs from rednecks, passing them along to the huge middle-class. Phase 2: He got sharp material from top young songwriters (primarily Leiber-Stoller and Otis Blackwell) that he could make his own. But early rock didn't allow for much variety: 12-bar blues, 16-bar pop song. Phase 3 began in late 1957, when every songwriter...
According to Kirby, the changes are a necessary step to ensure that Harvard remains on the vanguard of educational quality...
...sculpture to video recordings of models dressed up as bathroom tiles. Walking the exhibition's three floors is like visiting a classroom of precocious children: each energetic piece insists on your attention. If they aren't as liberated as their Western counterparts, Chinese experimental artists are clearly in the vanguard...
...Film Festival, China is in the midst of a renaissance in filmmaking. In his opening remarks for the festival, Archive curator Bruce Jenkins drew a parallel in his opening remarks between the impending change in China’s political leadership and the shift in the leadership of the vanguard of modern Chinese film...