Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Continent was a better place than the prudish U.S. to carry on multiple sexual adventures. By 1960 he was established at Sutton Place, his estate some 23 miles from London. He never returned to America, not even when his twelve- year-old son Timothy was dying from a brain tumor in a New York hospital...
Ralph: The Great Traveling Orgasm, my pet. Under the majestic scepter of science, not to mention the cattle prod of sexual politics, the Big O is thrashing about once again. It's gone from vagina to clitoris and now seems headed for the brain and back to the vagina. Before you know it, it will come to rest on the elbow or the pancreas. Ralph's Guide to Sex, as yet unpublished, will advise all ardent males to rub everything once. One never knows where tomorrow's sexual climaxes will be located...
Wanda: I'm developing a blinding headache in my R spot. That's the tiny part of my brain that thinks you're rational, Ralph. This headache is fully located between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. on both my clock and my cranial barrel. Thank you and good night...
Words come differently this way, thought Toad. To write a word is to make a thought an object. A thought flying around like electrons in the atmosphere of the brain suddenly coalesces into an object on the page (or computer screen). But when written in longhand, the word is a differently and more personally styled object than when it is arrayed in linear file, each R like every other R. It is not an art form, God knows, in Toad script, not Japanese calligraphy. Printed (typed) words march in uniform, standardized, cloned shapes done by assembly line. But now, thought...
...such legal changes might affect malpractice victims is illustrated by two cases in California. David Berg, once an enthusiastic athlete and honors student at the University of South Dakota, now lies in a vegetative state in a California hospital bed. In 1980, during minor elective surgery, he suffered severe brain damage; his lawyer blames ananesthesiologist's error. The hospital and doctors settled out of court for monthly payments that could top $14 million if Berg survives for more than 20 years. Berg's attorney, Richard Aldrich, who took the case on a contingency basis, will get $5.3 million of that...