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NEWS BRIEFS
By Andy Humm
NYC Plus presents a monthly round-up of news and events that have the greatest impact our lives.
ESSAY
"Warning!"
By Wickham Boyle
Cautionary advice on furniture moving and other heavy lifting from a wife and mother who refuses to follow her own - or her chiropractor's - advice.
DIATRIBE
"This Isn't About My Mother"
By Kent Doyle
When the author's mother dies, he and his two brothers trot off to the funeral parlor to make final arrangements. But when the worst casket on the floor costs more than any piece of furniture he has ever owned, ensuing indignation sparks a family feud.
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“Mario Cuomo: A Center Fielder for Faith and Reason
By Jerry Tallmer
When the three-term governor of the State of New York looked around at age 62 _, he found himself out of a job, out of money, and out of a place to live. “So,” he told his wife Matilda, “now I have to do what I never wanted to do.”
MEMOIR
“'Je Ne Regrette Rien' - Or Do I?”By Gertrude Faust Berger
A born rebel from the Bronx looks back, at age 91, on her crazy infatuation in the summer of 1934 with a sweet-talking Latin lover, the pregnancy that resulted, and the abortion that followed.
FEATURE
“AIDS Over 50”By John Arbucci
Combination Drug Therapies have been so successful at treating the symptoms of HIV and AIDS that what seemed impossible 20 years ago - growing older with the virus - has become increasingly common. Which has in turn created a new set of problems …
PERSPECTIVE
“Duels of Discourse, Underground”By Dexter Jeffries
The subway graffiti writers are back - but now they're writing real words in an often brainy cultural war of correcting and topping one another.
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WORK
“Portrait of an Untormented Artist”
By Jennie Green
From his rent-controlled loft in SoHo, the Italian-born abstract painter, Gian Berto Vanni, reflects on 77 years of living and working at full throttle … with no end in sight.
MIND/BODY
“Sex, Love, and Joy”
By Dr. Joy Davidson, Ph.D.
The animal urge might have weakened, but that doesn't stop countless menopausal women from wanting to rekindle desire. Does the answer lie in a prescription for a new pill, a new partner, or a redefinition of “sexy” sex?