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...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...
These and more than 12,000 other nuances of meaning and pronunciation have prompted Lexicographer Stuart Berg Flexner, co-editor of the landmark Dictionary of American Slang and editor in chief of Random House's reference- book department, to proclaim Cassidy's work one of the "major publishing events of decades...
...Government has accused various Order members of a $3.6 million armored- car robbery in Ukiah, Calif., last year; the machine-gun slaying last year of Alan Berg, a Jewish radio talk-show host in Denver; and other crimes ranging from bank robberies to counterfeiting. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Ward launched the Government's case by stating that he would prove, with testimony and documents, that Jean Craig, the only woman defendant, did reconnaissance for the Berg shooting and that Bruce Carroll Pierce acted as triggerman. Ward also asserted that Order members received tax-free "salaries" of $20,000 annually...
...career performing this legacy, but fresh material keeps coming. Two years ago, Peter Martins drew on her restraint and musicianship in a delicate work, Rossini Quartets. Last week at the New York City Ballet, Jerome Robbins weighed in with a really fat part. In Memory of . . . , set to Alban Berg's elegiac Violin Concerto, is a highly dramatic work, more openly emotional than Robbins usually allows himself to be. In the role of a dying girl, Farrell adds another heroine to her gallery of lost ladies...
...Berg wrote his concerto in 1935 after the death of Manon Gropius, the beloved daughter of his friend Alma Mahler and the architect Walter Gropius. The girl died at 19 of polio and the composer dedicated the work "to the memory of an angel." Robbins' scenario begins quietly and a bit flatly as Farrell moves with increasing stiffness and bafflement between her lover (tenderly danced by Joseph Duell) and friends. Suddenly they move off and she is left with a gauntly beautiful angel of death (Adam Luders). Their pas de deux is the heart of the ballet. The moves...