Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps it is the high proportion of walking corpses, dressed like extras from Sunset Boulevard, that makes everyone else in the audience look ill, too. The buckets o' blood spilled during a typical opera must be a contributing factor. And I've heard it said that opera is a slow-acting poison to red-blooded Americans. Whatever the reason, to visit the opera is to see an audience and an art form on its last legs...
...Kenya, the press has relentlessly attacked Western news reports on the AIDS epidemic. The latest flap came after London's Daily Mail reported that Prince Charles would carry his own supply of blood with him on an upcoming trip to the continent. PRINCE CHARLES SCARED OF AIDS! screamed the headline in the Kenya Times...
...National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: "The potential is devastating. Even the reality is a very serious situation." Still, few experts expect that AIDS will penetrate the heterosexual population in the West as rapidly or as pervasively as it has in Africa. The reason: factors such as unscreened blood transfusions, rampant venereal disease and unsterilized hospital needles are not common in Europe and the U.S., as they are in Africa. In addition, vigorous AIDS education campaigns appear to have the potential to slow down the rate of new infections...
...shrewd Washington Post column, Novelist Erica Jong (Fear of Flying), formerly a high priestess of sexual abandon, put the dilemma succinctly: "It's hard enough to find attractive single men without having to quiz them on their history of bisexuality and drug use, demand blood-test results and thrust condoms into their hands. Wouldn't it be easier to give up sex altogether and join some religious order?" With a little emendation the same plaint can be made by men. "You think twice," observes a 28-year-old male / patron of Lucy's, a crowded singles bar on Manhattan...
...defraud a wealthy ( woman, they hire an actress, Katie McGovern (Mary Steenburgen), to impersonate the woman's dead sister. Katie doesn't realize she is taping a video ransom note. Ever conscientious, she tells her sly captors, "I'm gonna take a beat after the line 'There was blood everywhere...