Word: anna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twice, a worried Charles Younger, 38, asked the staff in the Stanford University Hospital deli very room about his newborn's inactivity. He got only brisk reassurances. Finally, after 40 minutes, Younger pleaded: "How can I tell if my baby is alive?" Anna was alive, barely. She was suffering from oxygen deprivation, and the child today is a quadriplegic. But at least Anna will have few financial worries. The reason: an increasingly popular new way to settle malpractice lawsuits...
...flowerpot Nowak discovers in a toilet bowl) and gorgeous ones (a sweetly comic Degas overtone as one of the laborers reposes in a bathtub), but every shot is there to serve, heighten, reveal. The mundane and the surreal are one: Nowak sees images of his beloved, perhaps unfaithful wife Anna in a store window, on TV, naked in a cellar apartment. She is the vision-memory of all the hopes and fears he left behind, and brought with him to a strange land. Skolimowski left his native Poland in 1981; now he has turned headlines into a sly, affecting parable...
When the poet Anna Akhmatova was waiting in line outside a prison in Lenin grad during a time of political apocalypse - the Yezhov terror - a woman with lips blue from the cold asked her, "Can you describe this...
...effort to bolster the Crimson's blocking game--probably Harvard's least stable skill--Altman moved former strong hitter Anna Collins to middle blocker. Blocking is "something we haven't had a lot of time to perfect," Altman said. "Serving, setting, passing, and receiving came first. Anna has a lot of potential at blocker...
Recalling all this, Lily must also face current problems. She is unmarried and has a child named Anna, in honor of her mother: "Without an Anna, I am desolate. She should not be so important. I am trying to remedy that. I am trying to improve, but I have made her my talisman: if she is happy, then I am not my mother." Her father, from whom she has been estranged for years, has disappeared from his old haunts. Rumor has it that he is in Cambodia, doing penance for past sins by treating the victims...