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PUBUSHER AND EDITOR
Rende LaChance
E D ITO R - A T-L A R G E
A riel Waterwoman
VOL 12 NO. 5 JANUARY 6,1995
Inga Sorensen
G oodbye , M y F riend
CALENDAR EDITOR
My heart is both heavy from your loss and lightened fo r having known you
REPORTER
Jann Gilbert
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PHOTOGRAPHER
by Renée La C h an ce
Linda Kliewer
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR
Meg Grace
FEATURE
Saying goodbye to
Barbara
Although she leaves office
Jan. 9, Roberts’ legacy
will live on
(pp. 17-19)
ADVERTISING REPS
E. Ann Hinds
Jewel Robinson
DEPARTMENTS
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
World news
E. Ann Hinds
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Egypt deports HIV-positive
soccer player
Rupert Kinnard
(p. 4 )'
COPY EDITOR
National news
Kelly M. Bryan
Big changes at NGLTF—
including a new chief; CDC
revamps HIV program
TYPESETTER
Jann Gilbert
(pp. 5-11)
DISTRIBUTION
Ambling Bear
Local news
OFFICE MANAGER
Aaron Bong
A Portland firefighter is
convicted of “intimidating ”
an open lesbian lawmaker
CONTRIBUTORS
(pp. 12-15)
Aaron Bong
Kelly M. Bryan
Howard N. Dana
Tom di Maria
Jann Gilbert
Christopher Kamera
Al Kielwasser
Rupert Kinnard
Lee Lynch
Andy Mangels
Bob Roehr
Richard Shumate
Rex Wockner
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COLUMNS
Queer thing
H ere’s hoping the New Year
gets less interesting
(p. 31)
Amazon trail
The historic right to vote is
being abused
(p. 32)
ARTS
Cinema
f
Altman bares all; a look back
at the year in film
(pp. 24-25)
Visual arts
The royal art o f Benin
“Happiness sits at my feet like the sweet swamp mud
adding frosting to the bullfrog’s dinner. ”
—Ariel Waterwoman, 1988
(p. 26)
Dance
Bill T. Jones’ dance o f life
sat and sat, waiting for her gurney to com e off
the elevator from the recovery room o f Good
Samaritan Hospital. I planned to follow her to
her room and help her get settled after a long
and arduous surgery, the second in two months.
Instead the good Dr. Angela Kalisiak found me and
said, “Ariel ’ s taken a bad turn in the recovery room—
you need to make a decision.” Let her go or force her
to stay.
Ariel had been bravely and courageously battling
I
colon cancer since October 1993. This was her fourth
surgery. During the course of the disease, she over
came partial paralysis due to a brain tumor, radiation
sickness, chemotherapy, three surgeries, fatigue, and
changes to her body that broke her heart. She was
always optimistic and headstrong in her pursuit of
optimum health. She continually amazed the doctors
with her will to survive and her ability to triumph over
insurmountable medical odds. This day, her poor
cancer-worn little body could fight no more, and it was
(p. 27)
Media
Michael Stipe plays
hard to get
(pp. 28-29)
Aural gratification
It’s the new groove order
(p. 30)