Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Human guinea pig!" had demanded that no doctor be allowed to give an investigational drug to a patient without telling him so. This would have made it impossible to compare the effects of a drug with those of an inert dummy (a placebo), as is now done in "double-blind" studies in which neither doctors nor patients know who is getting the active substance. So the law now says that doctors must tell patients what they are getting, "except where they deem it not feasible, or contrary to the best interests" of the patients. "The drug industry can live with...
Shortly after war's end, he met Visconti and Fellini at Rome's University Theater Center, learned his craft on its stage in everything from Attic tragedy to Arsenic and Old Lace. His deaf mother and blind father would come to the theater, the one to see, the other to hear him. He made 50 films before La Dolce Vita, co-starring in several early ones with another beginner-Sophia Loren. He has high regard for her and she for him. She gets about $1,000,000 for a picture, and he gets around...
...membership in the Common Market since the birth of the European movement in 1948 -while Labor is still dithering and doddering over the issue. Said one speaker: British failure to enter the Market "will be a victory for the old against the young, for the insular, the blind and the prejudiced-and for Mr. Khrushchev...
Pleading now, the little man confessed: "I didn't want to come to this movie. My wife said I had to come to it. For fifteen minutes it has been blurry and I have gone half blind. Please, mister...
...goes underground, to erupt at intervals over the years in new active phases. Finally, in about half of the untreated cases, it attacks the heart and aorta, the brain and spinal cord. If the victim does not die of heart disease, he may end his days as a lame, blind, insane, partially paralyzed patient in a mental hospital...