Word: braine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STUDYING for next week's midterms, debating the value of a college education when, suddenly, you slam down last month's reserve reading, unable to carry on. Brain-fry has set in. You long to get away, maybe just for an hour or two, to forget the fact that living hell is just around the corner. You wander aimlessly up Plympton Street, mumbling something about Beowulf and macroeconomics, when you spot Adams House. If you're smart, you'll go in and see Scapine, a charming study break and timely cure for the mid-term blues...
Enter Shepard's Follies, the brain-child--or rather brain-children (it's really three shorter plays done in showcase)--of undergraduate directors Will Provost and Jennie Litt. Provost wrote and directed "A Slow Day in the Park" and "Some Game" (the latter not performed the night of this review), and Litt developed "The Unsupervised Infant" in a workshop with the cast...
While music may soothe the savage beast, baseball excites the cultured brain. The sport that has enamored such intellectuals as George F. Will and Roger Angell produced yelps and huzzahs from the audience attending Saturday night's Bach Society Ochestra concert...
...next day Dr. Obukhov again called me in and said that Andrei was on the brink of death, that his extrasystole was very bad, that he was suffering from grave atherosclerosis in the brain vessels and that he either had Parkinson's disease or symptoms of it. And that I should not worry him. I yelled, saying that as doctors they should understand that a man in that state of health cannot be kept isolated for four months from the only available person dear to him; I also accused them of having brought on his worsened condition by giving...
Last year Pamela Rae Stewart learned that her pregnancy was complicated by a misaligned placenta. Dr. Paul Zlotnik advised her to avoid street drugs, abstain from sex and take prescribed medication. When she gave birth to a brain-dead son, Zlotnik ordered tests. Authorities in El Cajon, Calif., say the results and her own statements indicate that Stewart neglected all three instructions. The infant died on New Year's Day. Now, in a unique and controversial use of state child-support law, Stewart has been charged with a misdemeanor: willfully failing to provide necessary care for her child...