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PICTURE A moonlit patio, the rhythm of soft Jazz, and a lavish dinner ready to be enjoyed. You're about to sit down when your date gives your hand an extra squeeze and wonders aloud. Do you happen to have V.D., herpes or AIDS? This scenario was not lifted from Porky still but instead is the type of warning currently offered by the popular media. According to author Allan M.Brandt Harvard professor of History and Science. such representations simplistic view that the problem can be solved it individuals act more responsibly in their sexual conduct...
...Tiepolo's punchinello figures and Picasso's own designs for Satie's Parade; the paintings of Dufy and Matisse for the imaginary seaside town of Zanzibar in Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias; Matisse again for the blazing and mysterious red-and-blue moonlit garden in Ravel's L 'Enfant et les Sortilèges; Chinese vase painting for Stravinsky's Le Rossignol...
While the orchestra at Lahore's Falett's Hotel played quietly for dancing, European guests drank cocktails on the moonlit terrace. Beyond earshot of the music, whole blocks of buildings lay gutted. Streets were bare and silent. Over the deserted railroad station the smell of corpses hung...
...that whole stretches of his range are innocent of mesquite. The land gives an impression of splendid cleanliness. A creek flows not far from the ranch house-a sweet luxury in a dry country. Cargile and his wife Ta will take a guest there for a picnic on a moonlit evening, and there is something almost profligate in the sound of the water flowing at one's feet. In this part of the world, a pastoral scene is difficult and expensive to create...
...weeks, Honduran soldiers stationed across the Coco River from the Nicaraguan village of Leimus watched with mounting concern as Sandinista troops began moving into the bustling town, a stronghold of the country's independent-minded Miskito Indians. Then, on a moonlit night just before Christmas, the Hondurans began hearing bursts of automatic rifle fire. An Indian mineworker, Roberto Vidal Poveda, 18, recounted his ordeal to TIME Correspondent James Willwerth, who talked to a number of Miskito refugees: "During the night, the Sandinistas took us out and started to kill us, one by one. They made me stand...