July 15, 1988 (vol. 98, iss. 9) • Page Image 3
…PROCESSED WORDS A plague of lies BY SANDRA STEINGRABER In the early days, it was called "the Gay Plague." Then, when it be- came obvious the virus had no particular sexual preference, it was deemed by the media "the 20th Century Plague." A host of morbid connotations are evoked by that label: gross suffer- ing, contagion, hysteria, divine punishment. These accurately reflect the anxieties many people harbor about AIDS. But the notion of AIDS a...…