Word: bedpan
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...sneering attention to the new butler (Dirk Bogarde) and asks him, "Do you use a deodorant? Do you think you go well with the color scheme?" The father in The Homecoming calls his new lady guest "a stinking pox-ridden slut" as well as a slop bucket and a bedpan. "Take that disease away from me," he commands...
There are big guns in this divorce battle--PAUL MCCARTNEY has hired Prince Charles' old attorney and HEATHER MILLS MCCARTNEY Lady Di's--but someone misfired last week. Leaked court documents allege that Sir Paul had, among other mean and nasty things, refused to let his wife use a bedpan and stabbed her with a broken glass. He's waiting until trial to address the allegations, and her reps won't comment on who leaked them, but their disclosure means she'll have less bargaining power come settlement time. Coincidentally, since Sir Paul just applied to trademark his name...
Self-insurance is a strategy that many businesses, professional people and governments are exploring (or, more often, being forced into). But the experience of doctors indicates it is not much of a solution. In the mid-1970s, doctors organized a number of companies, promptly dubbed "bedpan mutuals," to write malpractice insurance at lower premiums. But several of the bedpan mutuals are said to be in financial trouble, and as a group they too are raising premiums rapidly. Going bare is an act of desperation: business executives and professionals who are operating without insurance almost unanimously voice deep worry that...
...story of a prototypical dysfunctional family. Maureen Folan is a forty-year-old woman stuck in a dismal job and still living with her mother in a tiny countryside shanty. Mag Folan is a crotchety 70 year old with a urinary infection and a nasty habit of emptying her bedpan in the dish sink. Maureen is offered a route of escape when Pato Dooley, a man of roughly the same age as Maureen, returns from London to visit his home in Leenane and invites Maureen to start a new life with him in America. With some foreshadowing...