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...many of his personal experiences in writing The Naked and the Dead, which became an enormous, unexpected success. Mailer viewed the book as a serious anti-war tract, and its popularity startled him. "I must have done something wrong," he remarked. "They shouldn't have liked it." He had burst onto the scene as a major new writer and felt enormous pressure to follow up The Naked and the Dead with an even greater book, but he never would write "the big one" that he always yearned...
Cynthia Herdrich says yes - she is the patient described in the previous scenario. After a doctor informed her that she would have to wait eight days to have tests on her excruciatingly painful stomach, Herdrich's appendix burst, sending her into emergency surgery. Her lawyer, James Ginzkey, claims her life was put at risk because her doctor was keeping an eye on the bottom line - and a possible bonus - rather than on Herdrich's health. Ginzkey told the court that there was a place for cost-cutting measures and even financial incentives, but that patients should be allowed...
...burst on the scene, seemingly out of nowhere --the soap Santa Barbara, the sitcom Growing Pains (as a homeless kid), bits in Critters 3 and Poison Ivy--as Toby in This Boy's Life. He is at the center of this movie about a boy who bad-lucks into a stint with an abusive stepfather. And he holds the center; he can commandeer the screen doing nothing, with an eloquent slouch and a gaze that says, beneath the winsomeness, I can take...
...Crystal burst into the theater to a standing ovation and the Pudding orchestra's strains...
Except for a brief burst of life late in the third and a decent effort in the first half of the opening period, the Crimson forwards were hardly noticeable as the Huskies outshot Harvard...