Word: anemia
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...caused him to be chained and gagged, has apparently mellowed. The word pig never crossed his lips when, shepherded by three bodyguards, he spoke to an audience of 4,000 in Oakland, Calif. Instead of suggesting armed rebellion, he urged his listeners to take tests for sickle-cell anemia and to vote "for survival." In a move reminiscent of oldtime political bosses, he then distributed bags of food, each containing a frozen chicken. "Politicians used to promise momma a chicken in every pot," Scale said in a gravelly voice, "but we're producing it. If necessary...
According to Mark, racism is "a belief that skin colors really are important." His assertion, as it stands, is meaningless. Are doctors who advise sickle-cell anemia tests to more black patients than white patients racist? Are geneticists who advise light-skinned people to wear protective clothing in warm, humid climates racist? Are historians who point to the exploitation and oppression of blacks, Indians and Chicanos racist? Should they deny reality? Should they suggest that blacks were targets of discrimination on a geographical basis, a metaphysical basis, a divine command? Such questions make Mark's definition look ridiculous, but, alas...
...Masked Anemia. It is very difficult to account for Pinter's writing such a lethargic play. Of all contemporary playwrights, he has taught us the most about the importance of imminence in the dramatic experience. Who will come, or break, through the door next? What devastating words will unexpectedly be uttered? That is what has made Pinter an edge-of-the-seat dramatist. Even when he was, as English Critic Alan Brien once said, "a Hitchcock with the last reel missing," he still provided the electric Hitchcock tension. Beginning with the one-acters, Landscape and Silence, Pinter became enamored...
...Times, his famous pauses seem to be toothless gaps in the text. They indicate not minds and hearts too full for words, but too empty and too weary to go on. The actors mask the play's anemia beautifully. Rosemary Harris' Anna, in particular, is a remarkable achievement, with its Sapphic intricacies and paradoxically cool eroticism. Similarly, Peter Hall's direction is impeccable, and he has imbued the inaction of the evening with a rich golden stillness that the words themselves do not fully convey. The words, as always in Pinter, are rationed, unadorned and precise. They...
...disease. But they do provide a fast, inexpensive method of finding individuals who should get further attention. In an experimental program at Fort Knox, Ky., doctors tested 7,000 black soldiers, 94 of whom were found to carry hemoglobin S. Two of these soldiers actually had sickle-cell anemia...