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...that might prolong Baby Jane's life. A right-to-life activist lawyer sought to force the surgery, but two New York appeals courts and a state children's agency declined to override the parents. Justice then sued to obtain the records from University Hospital in Stony Brook, N.Y., to determine whether it had violated a federal law that forbids discrimination against the handicapped...
...order to keep personal information from being released, the family selected their own screening committee to review the tapes. The committee consists of Brook Marshall, who is currently a professor at Yale Law School, Samuel Beer, professor of the Science of Government at Harvard and Theodore Sorensen, a former Kennedy advisor and a close friend of the family...
...With vigorous encouragement from the American Life Lobby, the Justice Department sued University Hospital in Stony Brook, N.Y., to obtain Baby Jane's medical records as part of an investigation into whether there had been a violation of a federal law prohibiting discrimination against the handicapped. The suit is the latest action in a year-old Reagan Administration campaign, initiated after an Indiana baby was allowed to die, and designed to force hospitals to do whatever is necessary to prolong the life of handicapped newborns. University Hospital officials are fighting to protect the confidentiality of the records...
...Homer: "Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: one ... of honest horn, and one of ivory" to John Updike: She repeated her dream "at breakfast. He was moved, beholding his daughter launched into another dimension of life, like school. He was touched by her tiny stock of imagery." Throughout, Brook is keenly aware of the terror and distress that reside in dreams: his categories include Nightmare, Violence, the Absurd and Frustrations. Together they should engender enough insomnia for a lifetime. Instead, precisely the opposite occurs. For in the vastness of sleep, all countries are contiguous and all generations contemporary, their...
...alterations: Jonathan Miller updated Rigoletto as a '50s Mafia love story; Patrice Chereau set the Ring during the turbulence of the industrial revolution; Jean-Pierre Ponnelle WIDE WORLD played The Flying Dutchman as the phantasmagorical dream of one of its minor characters. Most radical of all is Peter Brook's La Tragédie de Carmen, first seen in Paris in 1981 and due to open in New York City this month. Brook's version is a rewriting of Bizet, the music cut, rescored and reordered with new characters added to the plot...