Word: beds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once she moved into Creekside Care Convalescent Hospital, it didn't take Bessie Seday long to realize that the promises made to her by the nursing home before she arrived had evaporated. "I couldn't get anybody's attention, starting on the fourth day," recalls the bed-bound 84-year-old. "You'd have your call light on for hours, but nobody came." What made her waiting more desolate was the near total deprivation of sunlight during her four months at Creekside. "It was a dungeon," she says. "I really would have liked to see the sunshine, but they never...
Bessie's daughter Ann used to visit her mother in the home, some 50 miles northeast of San Francisco, and find her lying immobile in a filthy bed. "She was not turned and kept clean and dry, which led to the bedsores," Ann recalls. A bedsore on Bessie's left hip turned into a gaping wound that would not heal, despite repeated whirlpool baths. Creekside nurse Patricia Lloyd knew why: the special washing machine for cleaning dirty bedpans had broken down. "So we washed bedpans in the whirlpool," she says, "and then we'd put patients with big bedsores, like...
Smoking is a theme that lang uses throughout her new album, Drag, to explore sex and love in a variety of contexts, including possessiveness, as in "Don't Smoke in Bed," and macho bravado, as in Steve Miller's "The Joker." In fact, if neither of these songs had audience members lusting for their Parliaments, perhaps any one of the other 10 covers on Drag, including "Smoke Dreams," "Love is Like a Cigarette," and "My Old Addiction," did the trick...
...quick to point out that just because you're a slacker doesn't necessarily mean you're "lying in bed for six days with nothing but a six-pack of Yoo-Hoos and some potato chips...
...acts like a very young and bewildered girl in love. Armand is perfection as the impetuous, infatuated lover, sustaining five and six pirouettes ending with a balance, landing smoothly from each high jump, and completing every moment of high emotion--even flinging off his shirt and falling into bed--with exquisite grace...