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Fugard first felt his relevance eroding when black anger overwhelmed white liberal gradualism in the '80s. Then, as the intransigent white government relented and prospects for peace improved, critics -- notably in New York City -- seemed to lose interest in a man they once hailed as great. Fugard's most recent pieces, My Children! My Africa! and Playland, dealt with South Africa's smoldering race hatred via small-scale, personal tragedies. Each had success elsewhere in the U.S. and around the world but closed quickly off-Broadway. Even at home in South Africa, where the shows were lauded, people wonder what...
During the '80s, several drugs were shown to inhibit the action of leukotriene. All these drugs, however, produced adverse side effects in humans. It wasn't until this year that a drug was found which reduced biological activity without toxic side effects...
...think it's really important to have that younger energy and certainly a lot of my inspiration came from ACTUP and from gay activism, what was happening particularly in the late `80s and early `90s. A lot of [that] was political, but there was also a certain amount of sexual activism that was going on, at least in San Francisco, where a lot of people who were involved in AIDS politics were involved also in a pro-sexual approach to life, were saying. "Let's separate the equation sex=death. [Let's] deal with our sexuality in a healthy...
...positive, I had assumed I was, so it was no big deal. It made me ponder a lot of questions--mortality, spirituality, politics, etc., and sex brings all those together. And being HIV positive I continued, and I was finding that, particularly in the mid `80s when we were living in an age of, I felt, sexual hypocrisy, people would either say, "I can't believe you're still having sex," or they would say, "I respect you so much for still going out," like it was work or something like that. And I'm like...
When asked about Harvard, McElwee responded, "I love teaching. I was here for six years in the early to mid '80s." He is now back as, "Visiting Lecturer, so called." He describes his students as "extremely bright, highly motivate" with "vivid imagination." These equalities are "juxtaposed with their relative inexperience with film-making" and that "most of them have never touched a piece of film." But they learn quickly, he says. When asked about Harvard'ts supposed lack of support for the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, McElwee responded: "In many ways how could you say that Harvard...