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...community, ripening the Advocate into a newsmagazine and evoking such other debuts as QW and Genre. Of these, the glossy, full-color Out is the most professional looking, drawing contributors from the Los Angeles Times, the late Connoisseur and Ms., as well as mainstream advertising from Benetton, Absolut vodka, Geffen records and Viking Penguin press. Says editor Michael Goff: "We're called Out because coming out is the one thing all gays and lesbians have in common." The problem: it may be the only thing they have in common. Out must span the chasm of gender, traditionally even wider...
...this well-filmed monologue. It's that he can't resist interruption. So he totes the manuscript with him to Los Angeles (surviving earthquakes and agents), on a fact-finding mission to Nicaragua (seeing one of his party go mad) and to Moscow (enduring an unaccountable vodka shortage). He also deals with aids anxiety and other distractions. Ironic and self-deprecating (his own description), he's neither wildly comic nor deeply dramatic. He's more like a good dinner-table talker, an agreeable anecdotalist with a nice sense of the ridiculous. Oh, yes, somehow he finished the book...
...with the International Monetary Fund on an overall economic-reform program. Only a few years ago, the Soviet government used an official exchange rate of $1.60 or more for one ruble, but no one took it seriously. Russian workers in those days preferred to be paid whenever possible in vodka or cigarettes...
...Missouri high school senior visiting Harvard this weekend spent a night in Mt. Auburn Hospital after drinking half a bottle of vodka, according to his host, Justin E. Levitt...
...When I came out 15 minutes later, he had already had half a bottle of vodka and he was sitting in the stairwell," Levitt said...