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...TIME of increasing discussion of women's and Third World people's oppression, there still remains enormous ignorance about the second-class citizenship of gay and lesbian people. This segment of the population, which includes members of every race, religion, and social class, is subject to legal restrictions on employment in 50 states, and on sexual activity in 29. Unwritten but culturally approved discrimination, contempt, and fear are barriers which gays and lesbians, whether open or closeted, must encounter every day. For the numerous gay students at Harvard and Radcliffe, these obstacles help to create a hostile environment for open...
Sunday evening the news magazine program, "60 Minutes" will air a 25- to 30-minute segment containing footage shot inside Afghanistan, showing fighting between the Afghanistan Freedom Fighters and Russian troops...
...deft when he dodges downfield as a wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Swann's way was honed in dance studios, where he spent 14 years learning moves. He displays his skill on Omnibus, the 1950s magazine-format show that ABC is reviving this spring. In one segment, with Hoofer Gene Kelly beating time, Swann joins Choreographer Twyla Tharp and Ballet Star Peter Martins in a Tharp dance about a wide receiver. Said Swann after his off-the-field patterns: "My thighs hurt...
...exactly en courage reverence. In the beginning, stations just had a staff announcer rip the forecast off the A. P. ticker. Stations with commercial foresight, however, brought in scientists or pseudo scientists to discourse on occluded fronts and thermal inversions. The weather package was born: a short noncontroversial segment of the local news, with almost universal audience interest. In the mid-and late '50s came the era of the weather girl-sex to relieve the tedium of the millibars. The acts ranged from chirpy to sultry. The women, often blond, busty and breathy, made a warm front sound like...
...most detailed and comprehensive work ever done on a major segment of the Chinese economy has opened a crack in that wall. The Bank of America's Hong Kong subsidiary has amassed a two-volume, 450-page report (price: $5,000) on the petrochemical industry that provides the first definitive view of a contemporary Chinese industry. Mandarin-speaking and Harvard-trained Anthropologist Robert Silin, 39, compiled the report, making three trips to China...