Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elderly patient had no known risk for AIDS when he received a blood transfusion in 1982. The procedure was routine, similar to one undergone each year by up to 4 million Americans -- victims of auto accidents, those recovering from operations, cancer patients and others. But this transfusion contained the seeds of tragedy: unknown to anyone at the time, the blood was infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). The next year the patient developed an AIDS-related form of pneumonia, and he died in 1984. His wife tested positive for the AIDS antibodies, and was later...
...doctor says in his report that: 'After checking the patient Alann Steen I found out that he had a crisis in his blood pressure....The symptoms he had were headache, hemiparicia, anxiety and difficulty in breathing...
...Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, must have been watching movies since the womb. Their first film, the independently made hit Blood Simple, was a brilliant parody of film noir and the best example of that genre made since the death of James Cain. Raising Arizonais a different sort of film altogether, a hyperkinetic comedy with a budget. But it still betrays a rabid obsession with movies, from its constant toying with technical effects to the incessant Gremlins--style stream of references to others movies. Some are obvious, while others are maddeningly oblique and occasionally the film degenerates into a mass...
Last spring, speeches by two Nicaraguan Contras were halted when members of the audience hurled eggs and a jar of fake blood at the two speakers invited by the Conservative and Republican Clubs. The demonstrators were not Harvard students...
...work like thumb-tied demons to return the booty. But even the surface of a Coen brothers picture looks unlike any other. These two young guys from Minneapolis -- Joel, 32, who directs and writes, and Ethan, 29, who writes and produces -- proved with their debut film, the gory melodrama Blood Simple, that they are shrewd filmmakers who can give a skewed spin to a hoary genre. Compared with their new effort, though, Blood Simple was just a five-finger exercise with a knife spiked through the hand. To their old fascination with Sunbelt pathology, to their side-winding Steadicam...