Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atlantic in three hours, as Michael Lappin predicted. And as David Scatter speculated, "Men may even walk on the moon." Marion Speich fantasized that there would be pushbutton telephones. Ah, but those that dreamed more down-to-earth dreams, how little they knew. "There might be a cure for cancer," thought Gail Lewis. And warmer winters in Buffalo were the vain hope of a boy named Francis...
American women have been urged since the early 1950s to have an annual Pap (named for its inventor, Dr. George Papanicolaou) smear as a screening test for cervical cancer. That recommendation has now been challenged. Public Health Researcher Anne-Marie Foltz of New York University and Epidemiologist Jennifer Kelsey of Yale University charge that the test became entrenched as a yearly health measure before its merits could be established. At best, they say, institution of the annual Pap test has been "a dubious policy success...
...Although cancer specialists point out that the incidence of invasive cervical cancer has fallen by more than 50% since yearly screening became widespread, they have no hard evidence to link the drop to the test. The decrease might be explained by other factors like the increasing number of hysterectomies, in which the cervix is usually removed. The true efficacy of the test is also clouded by the fact that though half the adult women in the U.S. have Pap smears annually, relatively few of the tests are on women who run the highest risk of developing cervical cancer. The disease...
...powered cast includes Anthony Perkins, Jennifer Warren and Florence Eldridge as Rollin's family and friends. Director George Schaefer helps keep the story from sliding into soap opera. Carmen Culver's script is not afraid to deal frankly with the physiological, psychological, sexual and social cruelties of cancer. It is Moore, however, who gives what is essentially a public service drama its surprisingly fine emotional texture...
First, You Cry is not, as one might expect, Mary Richards Gets Cancer. Rather than fall back on her considerable resources of charm, Mary plays Rollin as a rather cold and strident woman at first. When tragedy strikes, she gradually works shades of anger, maturity and self-doubt into her characterization. As a result, Moore does not just jerk the audience's tears but gives a sense of how one complex life can be redefined by an encounter with death. She also plays some extraordinary scenes, including one where we see Rollin's face as she examines...