Word: pricklies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ANGELS, Mary Gordon -- THE PRICK OF NOON, Peter De Vries -- SMALL WORLD, David Lodge -- THIS REAL NIGHT, Rebecca West...
...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...
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...
...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...
...lighter moments were not generated by political ambition, however. A late April council resolution allocated 20 cents to Princeton University's Dean of Admissions James W. Wickenden. The funds were aimed to cover the prick of a postage stamp because council members had heard that the dean had travelled to Florida to deliver the verdict of admission personally to model/actress Bookie shields...