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...George Bergalis wheeled his emaciated daughter Kimberly into a packed hearing room in the Capitol. Her speech slurred and voice shaky, the terminally ill 23-year-old spent only 15 seconds describing her ordeal to lawmakers. But her message was shattering. Bergalis, who contracted the AIDS virus from her dentist, is leading a crusade to require that all health-care workers be tested for the virus to prevent infection...
...sponsored by Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer of California would require health-care providers who perform invasive procedures to be tested for the virus. But critics pointed to the high cost of such widespread testing and argued that risk of medical professionals infecting their patients is so remote that Bergalis' dentist is the only one ever known to do so. That's small comfort for Kimberly...
...interspersed with the mysteries of, say, detective stories. The text is often witty, if declamatory, but the real joys of the piece are acoustic and visual. Philip Glass has contributed his customary pulsating music, which has the narcotic effect of nitrous oxide coupled with the distant hum of a dentist's drill, yet is curiously pleasurable. Painter Red Grooms has designed the sets in a sort of Chagall-meets-Grandma Moses style that is, fittingly, both primitive and highly sophisticated. -- W.A.H...
...Dean [Henry] Rosovsky has said that being a dean is a bit like being a dentist... because it always hurts and is often expensive," Knowles says, veering from the serious to the humorous and back again. "I didn't want, in the summer, to be a dentist...
...Dean [Henry] Rosovsky has said that being a dean is a bit like being a dentist...because it always hurts and is often expensive," Knowles says, veering from the serious to the humorous and back again. "I didn't want, in the summer, to be a dentist...