Word: bedded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pink, pink, pink. She's always wearing pink or covering her room with pink things. Her room looks as if a thousand pink bears were shot expressly to outfit her with custom-dyed pink carpeting. There is pink in the bathroom; pink in the bed; pink in the lavatory; there is pink everywhere. It isn't the subtlest of imageries but it very usefully informs us of Mammi's preferences and proclivities...
...that I was completely stranded in a bed of fascism, but I've never been one for large doses of militaristic enthusiasm...
...prepared for bed during an overnight stay with her boyfriend's family in Yonkers, N.Y., last week, Diane Elsroth, 23, complained of feeling ill. Her solicitous companion, Michael Notarnicola, also 23, brought her two capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol from what he said was a previously unopened bottle purchased a week earlier by his mother. Twelve hours later, the stenographer, daughter of a New York State trooper, was found dead of what was later diagnosed as acute cyanide poisoning. Her death touched off a new scare, reminiscent of the still unsolved Tylenol panic of 1982, in which seven people...
...twice traveled to Parma from Reggio to see Aida, only to hate it both times, with the proviso that he never again attend a Verdi premiere? Or that Sir Thomas Beecham once advised a tenor to sing the last scene of La Boheme on the bed next to the dying Mimi? "In that position, my dear fellow," said the redoubtable baronet, "I have performed some of my greatest achievements." And who can top the advice Richard Tucker once gave Franco Corelli, when the golden-calved Italian tenor asked the American for the secret of his way with Puccini? "To sing...
...such legal changes might affect malpractice victims is illustrated by two cases in California. David Berg, once an enthusiastic athlete and honors student at the University of South Dakota, now lies in a vegetative state in a California hospital bed. In 1980, during minor elective surgery, he suffered severe brain damage; his lawyer blames ananesthesiologist's error. The hospital and doctors settled out of court for monthly payments that could top $14 million if Berg survives for more than 20 years. Berg's attorney, Richard Aldrich, who took the case on a contingency basis, will get $5.3 million of that...