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...ride to Venna’s college. As a result of Fuller’s playful influence, Lewis participates in a practical joke, pretending to be a woman and engaging in flirtatious conversation with a lonely truck driver via his car’s CB radio. When the trucker becomes aware of the prank, the joke is on Fuller and Lewis; the rest of the film follows Fuller, Lewis and Venna as they are stalked, hunted and tortured by the angry driver...
...comprehend the full horror AIDS has visited on Africa, listen to the woman we have dubbed Laetitia Hambahlane in Durban or the boy Tsepho Phale in Francistown or the woman who calls herself Thandiwe in Bulawayo or Louis Chikoka, a long-distance trucker. You begin to understand how AIDS has struck Africa--with a biblical virulence that will claim tens of millions of lives--when you hear about shame and stigma and ignorance and poverty and sexual violence and migrant labor and promiscuity and political paralysis and the terrible silence that surrounds all this dying. It is a measure...
...positive. He is a cheerful man even after 12 hard hours behind the wheel freighting rice from Durban. He's been on the road for two weeks and will reach his destination in Congo next Thursday. At 39, he is married, the father of three and a long-haul trucker for 12 years. He's used...
...ashamed," she murmurs. She has stopped going to church. "Every day I ask myself, 'When will I stop this business?' The answer is, 'If I could get a job'..." Her voice trails off hopelessly. "At the present moment, I have no option, no other option." As trucker Chikoka bluntly puts it, "They give sex to eat. They got no man; they got no work; but they got kids, and they got to eat." Two of Thandiwe's friends in the sex trade are dying of AIDS, but what can she do? "I just hope...
...Senator Arthur Vandenberg, "seemed determined not to connive" for the nomination, while his opponent, New York Governor Tom Dewey, did a whirlwind whistle-stop tour on the eve of the convention, making 13 speeches in 13 hours. "He headed south with a whoosh, traveling like an over-the-road trucker trying to roll his rig home before morning," TIME reported. California Governor Earl Warren found a new way to campaign: "He made a little history. Appearing on a CBS television program, he proved himself the best campaigner yet on the newest communications medium to reach into the U.S. home...