Word: brights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...care unit accounts for about 15% of all hospital costs. Coronary care units may charge $400 to $500 a day. Yet, say some doctors, no one is sure whether survival rates are higher than would occur with care in regular hospital beds. Some physicians are also concerned that the bright lights, alarms and lack of privacy can frighten patients, impeding recovery or even precipitating fatal heart attacks. In neonatal centers, the infants are usually preemies and may require months, even years, of care before they are well enough to be released. Last year at Houston's Hermann Hospital, eight...
There are some bright nuggets here and there. William Daniels has a hilarious deadpan scene where, as G. Gordon Liddy, he outlines his outrageous schemes to trap '72 Democratic Convention delegates with call girls. As the President, Rip Torn does a gleefully vicious Nixon impersonation, whether he is re-enacting private Oval Office conversations (with bleeps in place of expletives) or declaring to the world that he is "not a crook...
Though in awe of his heroes, Judson is not blind to their egomanias and foibles. Watson is "markedly bright and never accustomed to hide the fact." Linus Pauling, a fount of chemical wis dom and occasional foolishness, has "un quenchable self-confidence." Biochemist Erwin Chargaff, bypassed by the DNA revolution, is "the man of mordant dissent." But in the main, the author is content to take the role of acolyte, bombarding his gifted tutors with questions, some incisive, others pointedly rhetorical. As Judson plays student to Nobel Laureates Crick and Perutz, so does the reader, who, if patient enough...
...building they don't. Diane Keaton's character--a pushy writer, neurotic like everyone else in the movie--declares, 'I come from Philadelphia, and I believe in God!" and Allen has scored both a laugh and and illumination of her character. She blurts, "I'm beautiful and I'm bright and I don't deserve this!" and he scores another laugh, but one that was not intended...
...bright spot on the day," as captain and six seat Jeff Cooley said, rowing to a 12-second victory over Yale, with Princeton another six seconds back. Although the J.V. was behind in the staggered start, it rocketed to a one-length lead after just 500 meters and opened up its lead on the turn, with cox Alexandra Dixon steering an excellent course...