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Witness to War is a politic portrait of a model humanitarian, a film designed to prick the American psyche without baring the blade...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Guzzetti's Risk | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...ANGELS, Mary Gordon -- THE PRICK OF NOON, Peter De Vries -- SMALL WORLD, David Lodge -- THIS REAL NIGHT, Rebecca West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: May 6, 1985 | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...Tending a cemetery is a grave responsibility." "It Midas well be spring," says a man fixing his car muffler. The book's conspicuous title can have a number of meanings, all socially redeemed because the line is Shakespeare's ("The bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon," Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 4). But there are no star-crossed lovers, only heavenly bodies tumbling from orbit to bounce in the bed of Eddie Teeters, a producer and sometime actor in pornographic videocassettes piously merchandised as sex-education films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncle Gatsby in Connecticut the Prick of Noon | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

John Ashbery, 57, Pulitzer-prize winning poet: "Very often people don't listen to you when you speak to them. It's only when you talk to yourself that they prick up their ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 24, 1984 | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...British incident is more worrisome and appears to be the first documented case of transmission from patient to medical worker. However, this case has several unusual features. According to the journal Lancet, it was not an ordinary needle-prick injury since it may have involved the actual injection of infected blood. Also, the nurse's patient apparently had contracted AIDS in Africa, where the virus seems to have different characteristics from its American cousins and appears to be spread primarily by heterosexual contact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: AIDS Anxiety | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

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