Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relaxation the cell members drank cheap wine, occasionally smoked marijuana and tumbled into bed with one another. Says Grathwohl: "There was supposed to be a political basis for having sex, but there didn't have to be much of one. After spending all day together in the political struggle, why not continue the political struggle in bed?" Indeed, so indiscriminate were their couplings, that members kept passing around a strain of gonorrhea that proved to be difficult to treat; they regarded it as a badge of honor...
...would have any serious effect on a man's sexual performance. But citing the study and more personalized interviews with 500 steady marijuana users who experienced sexual problems, he warned that those who smoke too much pot may find more than their inhibitions lowered when they get into bed. Their problem, however, need not be permanent. The study also showed that every subject's testosterone level-and ability to perform sexually-returned to normal two weeks after giving up the weed...
...night last April, Karen Ann Quinlan, 21, went to bed saying she was not feeling well. She never woke up. Stricken with a still undiagnosed malady (perhaps the result of mistakenly mixing a tranquilizer and drinks), she has remained in a coma ever since. One side of her permanently damaged brain shows almost no sign of functioning while the other gives off only slight but steady signals visible on an electroencephalogram. Last week, unwittingly, Karen Ann became the focus of the continuing legal-medical-ethical controversy over how to define death...
...more than $100,000. Meanwhile Karen's body is slowly curling into the fetal position, and she has lost 60 lbs. Though she does not respond, the Quinlans visit twice a day, and Mrs. Quinlan talks quietly to her. "I don't believe I could go to bed without saying something to her," she says. "Just like saying good night, you know, to your other children...
...what's what, who's a hardship case and who's cheating the system. The camera is locked into the same claustrophobic office, there aren't even shots looking through windows. When somebody is sent down to the Social Security office at 39th Street, or to J Street for bed and a meal, they're gone, that's it. And this seems to be Wiseman's way of saying that he can never get all of the facts, that seeking the greater truth is beyond the realms of documentary film, and that the closest semblance to the truth...