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...back narcotics for fear their patients will become addicted -- even when they have only weeks or months to live. This casts doubt over the profession's reassurances that pain will be controlled. And the dread of unrelenting pain is one factor that may encourage patients and doctors alike to blur the line between letting death occur and causing...
...sound of pages turning, 659 leaves rustling. The 659 pages of Tom Wolfe's first novel. The Bonfire of the Vanities. Have to finish this chapter. The next. And then it explodes. Fingers are flying. A blur. The End of The Book...
...often, though, the two terms are not so easily distinguished. Many a criminal trial, after all, revolves around precisely that gray area where the two begin to blur. Was Bernhard Goetz just a volatile Everyman, ourselves pushed to the limit, and then beyond? Or was he in fact an aberration? Often, besides, eccentrics may simply be weirdos in possession of a VIP pass, people * rich enough or powerful enough to live above convention, amoral as Greek gods. Elvis Presley could afford to pump bullets into silhouettes of humans and never count the cost. Lesser mortals, however, must find another kind...
...seem to be overdone holdovers from Breslin's The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1969). The kinks in New York's welfare bureaucracy are authentic and darkly humorous, but the black characters are not developed beyond their jive. Father D'Arcy's mission is unfocused, his misadventures a blur, and his conversion from guardian of orthodoxy to radical activist unbelievable, even for farce. Breslin's populist reflexes and ability to throw a punchy line remain in good working order, but this time it seems he got indignant and forgot his story...
...added that college board scores are not the only indicator of a weak elementary and secondary school education system in the U.S. "Students learn what teachers oblige them to learn, not a whole heck of a lot more," said Finn. "The entire 19th century is a hazy blur and I think it is a bloody outrage...