Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans really happy in their relentless search for trim, regimented bodies? By most standards, they are the healthiest people in history, generally blessed with low cholesterol levels and normal electrocardiograms and blood counts. Yet they seem to have become so preoccupied with the quest for the elusive perfect physical condition, so haunted by the very possibility of sickness that they are unable to enjoy the benefits of good health. They love to go out in the sun, only to worry about skin cancer. They diet continually, but agonize about gaining weight. They exercise relentlessly, yet live in dread of heart...
...Francisco was half an hour late taking off from Newark last Wednesday when a woman passenger kept herself locked in a rest room in spite of entreaties to come out. She finally emerged, said she was ill and returned to her seat. She left a lavatory so spattered with blood (from diarrhea, flight attendants assumed) that it was closed off for the six-hour trip...
...having AIDS, we are hardly surprised. Modern media coverage of the disease has made us more able to recognize AIDS symptoms than those of the chicken pox, and Hoffman's title, At Risk, is less than subtle. But the injustice that an 11 year-old who had a blood transfusion five years earlier, before blood donors were screened for AIDS, could contract this fatal disease hits home, and because we know Amanda so well, we feel as though a close friend is a victim of the disease...
Amanda's friends begin to shy away from her, thinking they may get AIDS from using a sink after her. Even Amanda's gymnastics coach gives in at the end. He tells Amanda that she may no longer practice gymnastics because blood from blisters on her hands might infect other team members. His evidence is a vague medical report which he is convinced a parent fabricated, but the fear in the community is too great for reason...
...talks about feelin' "reborn," like it was "Christmas," n' he baptizes himself in a tub of cold water. Junior does th' same, puts on Dad's clothes, n' Mom confuses him for his father. Junior also goes out n' slaughters a lamb n' practically washes himself in lamb's blood. Beats me what all this Christian symbolism is doin' in a play whose characters are as poor spiritually as they are materially; maybe Sam's just tryin' to increase th' mythic dimensions of th' play, or somethin...