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Shrimpy, a character who looks like a pig-in-blanket cocktail snack performs "Soapin' Up the Hawg" at the beginning of the short story, "The Mighty Kingdom of Shrimpy-Ub." His motivation for doing so, on a rug in the middle of his living room, remains unspoken, as do the origins of the ritual. His roommate Paul, who has a similar wiener-like shape, but taller and with a nose, lips and pronounced nipples, cocks his eyebrow in bafflement. The dance seems connected to the little Ib-Ubs, tiny four-legged creatures who begin erecting small towers on the floor...
Senior bar at Grafton means the same old cocktail routines with a few more familiar faces. Senior bar at Club Café, a popular Boston gay bar, means the same old techno gyrations with a lot fewer familiar faces...
...finds Burroughs back on the streets of Manhattan--that cocktail tray of an island--fighting off cravings for booze, dating a beautiful, wealthy, crack-addicted Prince Charming and continuing his misadventures as a high-flying adman (the behind-the-jingles tour of the advertising world is worth the price of admission on its own). Beneath the quick-flowing, funny-sad surface of Burroughs' prose lurks considerable complexity: wherever he goes, whatever he's doing, you can feel how badly he wants to drink--as well as the sadness from which that desire comes and the courage it takes to make...
...scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and a pioneer in the early use of the AIDS cocktail, might already have one of those drugs. Even better than stopping a virus? replication is preventing infection in the first place. The coronavirus attacks cells by latching onto receptors on a cell?s surface, fusing with the cell and then infecting it. Ho believes custom-designed peptides?snippets of proteins?might be able to block the virus from interacting with the cell receptors. Called fusion inhibitors, the compounds are being used with success in HIV patients...
...Robert Urich classic (hence the "Las"). It is what looks to be a kind of glitzy, action-heavy soap opera for guys, set in what we're told is the glamorous world of casino security, which apparently involves more than keeping drunk computer salesmen from groping the cocktail waitresses. Starring James Caan, Nikki Cox and Cheryl Ladd, it comes from the writer of "The Fast and the Furious" (It had a writer! Who knew?) and is assured to be a hit, says Zucker, because "Our highest-reated 'Fear Factor' ever took place in Las Vegas...