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Contents

Vol. 6, No. 14

FEATURES

Issue 152

THE MAINS EVENT After winning by only 11 votes, Rochester's first openly gay Councilman-at-Large wants to help those who can't help themselves. By George Sax.. REMEMBERING PETER VOGEL By Virginia Apuzzo and David Rothenberg. MACRO AND MICRO Keeping our minds open about AIDS. Report from Nairobi. Belle Glade update. Another kind of epidemiology from the National Cancer Institute. By Ann Giudici Fettner.. INNOVATIONS

By John A. Fall..

THE LAUNDRETTE

AS BIG AS THE RITZ Talking with Stephen Frears, director of My Beautiful Laundrette.

By John Morrone..

THE NATIVE

OF CREATION

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from a stunning new novel, a

reviewed by Laura

Cottingham. The Pearl

Bastard by Lillian Halegua and

The Land of Look Behind,

reviewed by Sarah Schulman.

Housman by Samuel M.

Love Poems: Homage to

March 17, 1986

Jerry Bauer

John Scagliotti, WBAI's new program dirctor, looks back as

David Plante

he moves forward.

mesmerizing mixture of

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intellect and eros.

CAUSING TROUBLE By Laura Cottingham.. SPACE AVAILABLE

By David Plante...

By John E. Bush..

BOOKS IN BRIEF

CONSUMER AFFAIRS

Alone by Beverly Farmer,

By Bill Cullum.

SEX

.23

Edited by Boyd McDonald......38

FILM

REVIEW OF BOOKS

By Felice Picano,

John Morrone, Joel Weinberg,

INSIDE THE ACT

and Mark Halleck..

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Steward, reviewed by

Tennessee Williams: Collected

THEATER

Robert Boucheron..

Stories reviewed

By Tish Dace..

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NOTES ON

by Charles Ruas...

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DANCE

CONTRIBUTORS.

.35

HIS OWN MASTERPIECE

By Otis Stuart.

.43

Lorca: The Gay

NEWS

GALLERIES

Imagination reviewed

By Alfred Sturtevant.

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NATIONAL NEWS

LOVE, HONOR,

Edited by John A. Fall.

CLASSIFIEDS

SECOND SECTION.

.50

AND OBEAH

NEWS

Clara's Heart: a review of

By Charles L. Ortleb

FOR LOVERS ONLY

.52

Joseph Olshan's novel and a talk with the author. By John Morrone..

and Sarah Schulman.

THE PERSONALS..

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COLUMNS

CROSS COUNTRY.

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LETTERS.

COCKTAIL ASTROLOGY By Michael Jay.

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CARBON COPIES.

CITY DESK

By Barry Adkins..

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STONEWALLING

By Thomas J. Jackson..

By Tom Hachtman..

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by Jaime Manrique.

NEW FORMS OF LOVE Maureen Duffy's Collected Poems 1949-84 and Marilyn Hacker's Assumptions reviewed

by Kenneth Pitchford... THE CIRCLE GAME Peter Ackroyd's new novel, Hawksmoor, reviewed

by Michael M. Moore....

TIME BOMBS

Two gems from Europe-

Gerd Brantenberg's Egalia's Daughters and Grazia

Deledda's After the Divorce-reviewed by Stacey D'Erasmo...

THE CATHOLIC

A Native first: two chapters

GERTRUDE'S FOLLIES -

ON THE COVER: Dr. Jane Teas (photo by Bill Cullum) and Dr. John Beldekas (photo by Donna Binder), whose letter 15 published in the March 8, 1986 issue of The Lancet demonstrates a connection between AIDS and African Swine Fever virus. (Story on page 8.)

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