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...Cottle, "celebrities express the feeling of being dehumanized by dint of their celebrity. I'm trying to recapture their humanity." The trouble is that his famous guests, performers by instinct, have a tendency to be psychic strippers. With the merest prodding they will shred the last thread of privacy and reveal intimate aspects of their lives. Cottle calls it the "strangers on a train" phenomenon. Yet his guests expose themselves to a faceless audience of millions, turning viewers into video voyeurs...
Racial discrimination was the loose thread, which, when repeatedly yanked by Southern Black civil rights workers, began to unravel the myth of a just society for thousands of white students in the North. This revelation, not Vietnam, inspired SDS to pull away from its democratic-socialist parent organization. Starting with a few hundred members scattered from Harvard to Berkeley, the group gradually constructed a platform which linked the students' own impatience with mainstream Democratic politics to the suffering of the non-white and the destitute. In its 1962 manifesto, The Port Huron Statement, SDS zeroed in on the links between...
...Meredith issue of the Ole Miss magazine, has written for her editorial: "We are of a generation in Mississippi who knows firsthand that blacks and whites can actually work together, grow up together, and share common experiences. Even at Ole Miss, where tradition hangs on until the very last thread, much progress has been made . . . Our generation can do something about it. We can work toward the inevitable changes that will make Ole Miss a better place for people of all races...
...search for a common thread among these widely diverse groups has confounded researchers from coast to coast. When AIDS was confined to the gay community, says Curran, "our efforts were concentrated on trying to dissect out life-style differences." Various sexual practices and the use of amyl nitrite "poppers," inhalants widely used by homosexuals to enhance orgasm, were among the subjects investigated. The life-style theory does not, however, explain the emergence of AIDS in nongay populations. Most researchers now believe that an infectious agent is involved in AIDS. This agent is probably transmissible in a variety of ways, through...
Director Trevor Nunn, who can thread the needle's eye of nuance and possesses a searching eye for detail, has set the play in what the late Kenneth Tynan called "a timeless Edwardia." Helena, a kind of lady-in-waiting to the Countess of Rossillion (Peggy Ashcroft), burns with love for "a bright particular star," the countess's son Bertram. A physician's daughter, Helena follows Bertram to the Court of France and cures the mortally ill King (John Franklyn-Robbins...