Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those studied included children, parents, siblings and other family members who had lived with an AIDS victim for an average of nearly two years. Even more significant, all had spent at least three months with the patient during an 18-month period before AIDS symptoms actually appeared, when the disease is believed to be most contagious. Some of the family members had shared toothbrushes, razors and clothing with the patient; half shared combs and drinking glasses; 37% slept in the same bed as a patient, and nearly all had exchanged hugs and kisses. Says Dr. Gerald Friedland...
Despite the high level of intimacy, only one of the 101 people in the study was infected with the AIDS virus. The sole victim was the five-year-old daughter of an infected, female drug user; the child had probably contracted the virus before her birth. The absence of the virus in the other 100 was particularly impressive because most of them belonged to low-income families living in the kind of crowded conditions that are thought to facilitate the spread of infectious diseases. If the disease cannot be transmitted in such family settings, says Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief AIDS...
...manifestly spent many hours with Kafka's In the Penal Colony and Orwell's dystopian visions. Walker's central figure, a nameless public relations man for a major corporation, is getting stale. The company packs him off for behavioral conditioning. Walker is not much on acronyms: the victim is made to undergo PAR--Positive Attitudinal Reinforcement--and SAD--Supervisory Aptitude Development. But the forced seminars ring with comic truths: the victim is considered a pariah because of his indifference to football and "masculine science," i.e., driveway resurfacing. He has yet to master doodah, the company version of gobbledygook...
...from the artistic directorship of Wisdom Bridge to the same slot at the bigger-budget Goodman), this Hamlet employs a slide show, blues and rock sequences, video monitors and a staging of King Claudius' taking power as a press conference resonant of Watergate. The initial run starred doe-eyed, victim-like Aidan Quinn; he is now appearing off-Broadway in Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, and Peter Aylward plays the role, in striking contrast, as a robustly funny bullyboy...
Sure, compared to Screw magazine and the underground porn film industry which sometimes gets its "talent" by kidnapping, drugging, and then raping women on film, any mention of SI as "sexist" or "harmful" can be seen only as misplaced zeal, making the mag a victim of the anger and resentment it never imagined it would engender. And there are those who will find SI's title, "Ornaments of Society", a lighthearted, self-conscious joke--a joke on all who would take it seriousy as anything other than a shot of midwinter warmth, not to mention an ad-revenue extravaganza...