In 1980, B. J. Rosenthal's only mission is to find himself a boyfriend and avoid setbacks like bad haircuts, bad sex, and Jewish guilt. In post-AIDS 1986, B.J.'s world has changed dramatically -- his friends and lovers are getting sick, everyone is at risk, and B.J. is panicking. Parrying high-wire wit against unbearable human tragedy, Eighty-Sixed now stands as a testament to an era. "If Woody Allen were gay and wrote novels, he'd produce something like David Feinberg's Eighty-Sixed." -- David Streitfeld, The Washington Post Book World "[Feinberg] has given us a painful story of one man coming of age in a terrifying age." -- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) "Entertaining, harrowing, and powerfully unsensational." -- Booklist "[Eighty-Sixed] stands out for its frankness, ferocious wit, and total lack of sentimentality or self pity." -- Catherine Texier, The New York Times Book Review

With the startling blend of satiric wit, pathos, and heroism found in his acclaimed and iconoclastic novels, Feinberg--who died in 1994 at the age of 37--charts a harrowing journey down that "HIV highway to hell". "This is AIDS literature for a new generation--funny, impertinent, sexy, and enlightening".--The Advocate.

An experimental study has been made 'of the energy transfer from a hot (T-5 x 10 K), dense (n -.10 cm ) 6 0 16 -3 deuterium plasma containing a strong magnetic field 4 (8-10 Gauss) brought into sudden contact with a cold wall. The energy flux from the plasma to the wall was measured using a thin film, fast rise-time bolometer. The construction, calibration, and theory of this bolometer are described. The experimentally measured energy flux was compared with a theoretical prediction employing classical plasma transverse thermal conductivity. The measured energy flux is found to be about 1.5 times that predicted by classical plasma theory. The measured plasma ftransverse thermal conductivity exhibits the functional dependence on temperature, magnetic field, and density that is expected from classical plasma theory. The extent of damage to the cold wall surface was also measured using a scanning electron microscope to examine various wall samples exposed to the plasma. The observed surface damage to a copper wall sample was in reasonable agreement with the predicted damage due to sputtering. The damage to the surface of a stainless steel wall sample was considerably greater than predicted by sputtering.

In pre-AIDS 1980, B.J. Rosenthal's only mission is to find himself a boyfriend. But in post-AIDS 1986, his life has been permeated by the deadly virus. Friends have been stricken with the disease, making B.J. paranoid. Humor becomes his weapon of survival.

B.J. Rosenthal--the dishy, neurotic, horny, cranky, and adamantly gay hero of Feinberg's Eighty-Sixed--is resurrected in this harrowing and insightful novel about AIDS and enduring with dignity and humor in a world that seems bent on stripping him of both.--The Advocate.