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Review: 'This Will Have Been' takes the temperature of the '80s
CHICAGO — For art museums interested in contemporary American art, the 1980s have been a bit of a blind spot. Individual artists who emerged in those rambunctious years have not been in short supply in their galleries, through retrospectives and...
Tags: Painting, David Salle, Radio, Cindy Sherman, Artists
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Pakistan offers little justice for victims of acid attacks
FAISALABAD, Pakistan — The cherub-faced 10-year-old girl was standing at a bus stop, saying goodbye to visiting relatives, when her mother noticed two motorcycles approaching, one coming down the street and the other from a graveyard behind them....
Tags: Pakistan, Prisons, Punishment, Judges, Justice System
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Two female soldiers sue military over ban on combat roles
Two female soldiers are suing the Department of Defense and the Army to end policies prohibiting women from serving in a combat role. Their complaint, filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that the military is...
Tags: U.S. Army, Laws, U.S. Department of Defense, Leon Panetta, Armed Forces
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Mike McGrady dies at 78; journalist behind sexy bestselling hoax
In the summer of 1966, Newsday columnist Mike McGrady threw down the gauntlet to a trusted coterie of fellow journalists: Produce a novel so poorly written and relentlessly focused on sex that it would fly off bookstore shelves. Two dozen colleagues,...Tags: U.S. Army, Stranger Than Fiction, News Media, Long Island, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Letters: Eugenics in America's past
Re "A crime against motherhood," Opinion, May 14 To my horror, I just read that the namesake of my local high school, David Starr Jordan, was a leading eugenicist who "promoted compulsory sterilization legislation across the United States." Op-Ed...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Concerts
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Appreciation: Donna Summer: The sonic seduction lives on in today's beats
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf you drop a needle on the original version of "Love to Love You Baby" just as you're beginning this appreciation of Donna Summer, the so-called Queen of Disco who died Thursday at age 63, you would probably be finished reading long before the song...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Casey Kasem, Dance Music (genre), Science and Technology, Janet Jackson
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Donna Summer, Queen of Disco, dies at 63
Associated PressDisco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as "Last Dance," "Love to Love You Baby" and "Bad Girls" became the soundtrack for a glittery age of sex, drugs, dance and flashy clothes, has died. She was 63. Her family released a statement saying...Tags: Dining and Drinking, The Rolling Stones (music group), Radio, Nas, Casablanca (movie)
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Letters: Men, women and history
Re "A woman's touch," Opinion, May 11 Why is it such an amazing idea that "mom" might have some answers on running a business? Thousands of years of patriarchal dominion, with men's values of "assertiveness, competitiveness and even aggression," have...Tags: Social Issues
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Review: 'In One Person' by John Irving
Tribune newspapersIn One Person A Novel John Irving Simon & Schuster: 426 pp., $28 Late in John Irving's 13th novel, "In One Person," the narrator, an aging writer named William Abbott, recalls visiting a high school friend dying of AIDS. It's the early 1980s, the...Tags: AIDS, Barack Obama, Arts and Culture, Literature, Gays and Lesbians
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The breast-feeding story we should be talking about
Time magazine fanned the flame around the "attachment parenting" debate Thursday with its provocative cover of a young mom breast-feeding her almost 4-year-old-son. Imagine the controversy the cover would have sparked if she were feeding him vegan...
Tags: Birth Control, Family Planning, Human Body, Health, Family
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A 'war on women' at L.A. City Hall?
In a twist on a theme that has flared up on the national political stage, labor unions representing Los Angeles city workers are accusing Democratic Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of waging war against women, saying most of his proposed layoffs would hit jobs...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Politics, Public Employees, Career and Workplace, Budgets and Budgeting
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Critic's Notebook: Network TV embraces the B-word
Last year, when the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals curtailed the Federal Communications Commission's powers to punish networks for "fleeting expletives," many worried that network television would become a battlefield of exploding F-bombs and barely bleeped...
Tags: Tina Fey, 2 Broke Girls (tv program), Betty White, Suburgatory (tv program), Prime Suspect US (tv program)
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