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While it might seem appropriate for those who have not read the book to pigeon-hole it as the record of a cultural moment--a peek into the lives of artists with AIDS in '80s New York--Gurganus insists that the reader love the book for the humanness of its characters. "We have all been upstaged by the newsworthiness of our particular disaster," writes Gurganus/Hartley in one of the story's more pointed moments. In Plays Well With Others, however, Gurganus triumphs in crafting an emotionally and literarily memorable work...
...acts to suck away time) and gave the audience two tracks that went way back into the Cure's infancy. "10:15 Saturday Night" and "Killing and Arab" reached back to 1979 and ended a triumphant night for the Cure. Although the band's popularity has waned from their 80s heyday, the Cure proved that their musical prowess...
...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the number of deaths from AIDS had declined in the United States for the first time since the beginning of the epidemic in the early '80s. Though this decline was attributed to scientific innovation and more effective preventive education, it was also a deceptive indicator of trends in HIV infection in some segments of the population. In fact, the number of HIV cases among women, children and minority groups in the United States continued to rise through...
Older mothers disagree, of course. People live longer nowadays, they argue, and stay healthy and strong well into their 70s and 80s. Besides, when an elderly man fathers a child--Strom Thurmond or Tony Randall, to name just two recent examples--many applaud his virility. When an older woman bears a child, she is seen as some sort of freak. Yet sexist as it may seem, most experts agree that the mother is usually the more crucial parent...
Richard Hartley Mims Jr., the novel's HIV-negative narrator, can't stop prematurely expostulating about his talented Greenwich Village friends who began dying from AIDS in the early '80s. Robert, an Iowa Adonis, squeezes a legendary social life and the completion of an epic symphony inspired by the Titanic into two blazing years. Angie, a part-time waitress, cracks the art world with large, spirited canvases and the smarts to know that even a gifted girl has to hustle. Mims' own promising career as a writer is detoured by home-nursing the stricken. His key ring, he notes with...