Word: prick
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...this the hushed lyricism of Jenny Giering's I Follow and the mordant merriment of Michael John LaChiusa's Mistress of the Senator, and you've got a collection guaranteed to make intelligent theater-music fans prick up their ears. There's only one catch: Way Back to Paradise contains scenes, arias, and even full-blown art songs. But nostalgia-hungry listeners will search in vain among these determinedly theatrical post-Sondheim musical monologues for anything resembling the straightforward, crisply turned lyrics and incisive 32-bar melodies that for decades defined American popular music at its best...
True, a foreign policy of least resistance has its attractions. It avoids trouble--for now. It is always the credo of appeasers that they saved real lives, which their critics would blithely sacrifice--to what purpose? Saving face? Power? Principle? Abstractions. If you prick them, do they bleed...
INFECTION PROTECTION There's help for hospital workers exposed to HIV from, say, a needle prick. Taking anti-AIDS drugs soon afterward can cut the odds of becoming infected...
...their work together on the '72 McGovern race in Texas. But friendship will take you only so far in politics. With handicappers rating the popular G.O.P. Governor George W. Bush as the man Gore may face in 2000, the White House camp figures it couldn't hurt to prick him in his 1998 gubernatorial re-election race or to road-test campaign tactics that Gore might want to use two years later...
...with only a lukewarm response. Western governments, wary of repeating the high-profile failure of the intervention in Somalia, are reluctant to commit foreign troops to a country with minimal strategic or commercial interests--and so far with few TV scenes of horror broadcast to prick the world's conscience. Western officials note, moreover, that the Burundian army and members of the coalition government oppose the idea. Even prominent Hutu moderates, including the country's President, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, concede that foreign troops "will not solve our problems." Talking to Time from his mansion in Bujumbura last week, he asked, "What...