Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, Gwen and Alma find a taker--the overripe harem head, Celia Lips (Ty Christopher Warren), who's constantly looking for new blood with which to tempt the timid Sultan Battery the Ever-Ready (Jon Tolins), who's got, well, women problems...
...other women fail to rouse the faint-hearted Sultan, his situation looks grim. The evil Ahab Younow, backed by his maniacal mercenary Moslem bodyguard, Mecca Myday (Robert McManus), is poised for action. Mecca's not a bad ally to have: "I eat armies for breakfast. I drink blood. I snack on glands." (He's not about to ask any superiors if we can win next time...
...later and Harvard had just dispensed with Penn, 80-65. Usually after a victory, the team returns to its locker room to create utter mayhem, banging on lockers and letting out blood-curdling screams...
...officials know of no case in which the AIDS virus has spread through casual contact. Last week, however, the CDC did report the first known instance of child-to-parent transmission. The case, Jaffe notes, was highly unusual in that the child, who was infected by a blood transfusion, suffered from a number of congenital ailments. His mother, a paramedic, had served as his nurse both at home and in the hospital, coming into frequent contact with the child's blood and wastes. Says Jaffe: "This kind of care is not what goes on in most households...
This is a novel written in blood and Inc. The author has been a speechwriter for Lee Iacocca, Gerald Ford and the chairman of the board of American Motors, and he has manifestly spent many hours with Kafka's In the Penal Colony and Orwell's dystopian visions. Walker's central figure, a nameless public relations man for a major corporation, is getting stale. The company packs him off for behavioral conditioning. Walker is not much on acronyms: the victim is made to undergo PAR--Positive Attitudinal Reinforcement--and SAD--Supervisory Aptitude Development. But the forced seminars ring with comic...