Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film, namely that men are no good, is now painfully explicit. The husband Bergen sheds, once she begins her climb, is basically a nerd. The man Bisset finally decides might be all right-he is, in the current fashion, younger than she is and without a traditionally masculine brain wave-dumps her for her friend's daughter. The conviction of its stars, however carries one past this dreary consistency just as it does the movie's more troublesome inconsistencies. The trick to enjoying the film is not to take anything about it seriously, except the talents of Bisset...
...best, difficult material is portrayed very graphically." A segment on sensory psychology is literally a cliffhanger: a man uses his tactile sense to claw his way to safety while climbing. Afterward, diagrams with flashing electronic lines show how impulses speed along the nerve path from finger to brain...
Glicklich. who is on leave from the Graduate School of Education, had charged the doctors with failing to diagnose and treat correctly a cancerous lump in her right breast, which spread to her brain and became inoperable...
...Stinn no longer plays for the Harvard team. The senior linebacker sustained a concussion--the fifth of his career--on the fifth play from scrimmage last Saturday at Columbia, and team doctors told him that another such injury might lead to brain damage...
According to Dr. Boland, multiple concussions can cause permanent damage to the brain, and in almost every case of this severity, the athlete is forbidden to play. "They come here to strengthen their brains, not destroy them," he said...