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Arthur Ashe was an inspiration, a goodwill ambassador of tennis and a missionary of Black American sports. The tennis world tried to set aside its grief yesterday over the death of Ashe, the better to remember him as a man who brought so much joy...
Jeffrey (John Michael Higgins) is such a fellow. This pleasant young actor- waiter grew up thanking God for the joy of sex; now he curses God because "life is suddenly radioactive." So he decides that the only safe sex is celibacy. He sublimates at the gym: "endorphins, not hormones." He rejects the amiable advances of Steve (Tom Hewitt), who is HIV positive. And gradually he retreats from the gay life -- not just the sex, but the camaraderie in times of frivolity and mourning. He doesn't want to attend -- and diss -- one more AIDS memorial at which the guest stars...
...time is not always a dependable ally. Like young Maciek in Wartime Lies, Ben can never come to terms with his tragic past. It drains his personal attachments and achievements of their joy and meaning. Excerpts from his correspondence and unmailed jottings fill up with foreboding and descriptions of himself as "barren, dark and desperate...
...efforts, Krishnaswamy received a complimentary microwave reheatable bowl, a "beer thing," and "the joy of knowing that I was able to be of help to others...
...party I went to this summer was such a mind-altering experience that I felt a need to spread the joy and warmth I found to all Harvard undergraduates," Krishnaswamy says...