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Kaposi's sarcoma is a rare cancer that appears as violet patches on the skin and infiltrates the digestive and lymph systems. In the past, its victims have been mainly children in equatorial Africa and elderly people of Jewish or Mediterranean extraction. But now the disease is taking an alarming toll on another distinct group, American homosexual males. In the past six months, the disease that usually afflicts fewer than two people out of 3 million Americans has stricken 95 individuals, more than 90% of them homosexual men, most of whom are in their 30s. The death rate...
...Friedrich's Moonrise on the Sea, 1822, three figures on a rock, silhouetted in a loneliness as absolute (though not as flamboyant) as Manfred's, Childe Harold's or Young Werther's, gazing in immobility at the slow unfolding of light on the darkened, violet-tinged flatness of sea and sky. Like most of Friedrich's paintings, it is soaked in allegory-the moon representing Christ, the ships serving as emblems of the voyage of life, and so on-but the recent revival of Friedrich's reputation has more to do with his ancestral...
...something to watch. In air and bearing, she possesses regal command. Her arrant good looks, particularly those thrush-startled violet eyes, fix all other eyes upon her. On glimpsing her, Poe might have written his poem "To Helen" apostrophizing the most beguiling beauty of the ancient world. QE3 (as someone recently nicknamed Taylor) conjures up that grace and grandeur...
There is pride and an odd kind of defiance in her voice, and at such moments those famous violet eyes look as blue and forbidding as arctic ice. Much has been written about those eyes, but it has not been noted how quickly they can move up and down the Fahrenheit scale, from a sultry 85 or so to a frigid ten below zero. Some of the chill is shyness. When she was younger she used to go to parties and hide in the shadow of her second husband, Michael Wilding. One night Humphrey Bogart told...
...when the eyes are flashing violet -which in her case means go-she could melt an igloo. During the three weeks in Fort Lauderdale, the loud, rollicking laughter from her dressing room backstage almost brought down the roof. "I know," she says, somewhat abashed when it is mentioned to her. "Noël Coward told me once that my laugh is like a drunken sailor's on leave. But when I get to know somebody and can let my hair down, I am a boisterous, raucous, down-to-earth, no-nonsense lady. I live life with a zest...