Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white, heterosexual, female virgin who never used intravenous drugs and was infected during dental treatment, Kimberly Bergalis was all but universally termed an "innocent" victim of AIDS. To gay men with AIDS, however, this locution was profoundly upsetting: it implied that they were "guilty" and deserved their doom. Many felt that the Bergalis family let itself be used by hatemongers and that Kimberly's plea for universal testing of health-care workers would wrongly shift emphasis to safeguarding the "innocent" mainstream instead of finding a cure...
...Zenica, and now we have nothing," Mikerevic says, seated in his family's small two-room apartment. It once belonged to Muslims, but Mikerevic does not want to know what happened to them. In the narrow living room filled by a sofa and a crib, an icon of the Virgin Mary now presides, next to a photo of an uncle who is with the military but hasn't been heard from in a year. Mikerevic rests his rifle in the crib next to the doll his wife found on the street...
...situation demands an easy and effective system of classification. For the prefrosh who are visiting this weekend, a guide to Harvard's taxonomy is especially crucial. No explorer entering the virgin forest ever had to cope with such bewildering biodiversity...
Some will argue that expansions like this one are important because they introduce baseball into virgin territory, like the mountain time zone. That's a noble idea, but there are too many nasty side effects...
...symphony struck such a resonant chord? The texts, which include a 15th century monastic lament, a mournful folk song about the death of a child and, most movingly, a brief prayer to the Virgin inscribed on the wall of a Gestapo prison by an 18-year-old Polish girl, evoke a sunless world of pain and suffering. The ineffable music, which unfolds seamlessly from small, minimalist melodic motifs, evolves into a soaring Brucknerian cathedral. Hardly the stuff of which gold records are made...