Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yawn at an old mirror-image routine that Midler essays, which is lifted from Silent Comedian Max Linder and the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. But Big Business was designed as a compact car, not a classic. Once Director Jim Abrahams (Airplane!) hot-wires the mechanism, the plot takes care of itself, and the movie pretty genially takes care of any audience looking for frenetic summer fun. It's value for money to get two fish-out-of-water stories in one, especially with the planet's two most gifted performing females in the main roles...
...chairman's 579 recommendations add up to a bold plan for action that could cost $3 billion. In a preliminary report released last February, the commission called for hundreds of new treatment centers for intravenous drug users, home care for AIDS patients and a streamlined federal approval process to speed up the delivery of experimental AIDS drugs. In the latest document, Watkins went further and emphasized two measures that the Reagan Administration has stiffly opposed: new federal antidiscrimination laws to protect those infected with the AIDS virus from loss of jobs, insurance and housing, and new confidentiality statutes to ensure...
...major bulwark against that fear," the report asserts. However, it also establishes clear exceptions to the rule: namely, when there is a need to protect those "who may unknowingly be in immediate danger of being exposed" to the AIDS virus. Among them are victims of sexual assaults, health-care workers who are accidentally exposed and those who may be treating infected individuals...
...such vital importance . . . that they must be implemented immediately," including comprehensive health courses in the schools and a program tailored to minority communities that have been hardest hit by AIDS. The chairman also suggested that the Surgeon General act as the Government's principal spokesman in health-care emergencies, with the authority to forge effective public policy speedily. As if to underscore the urgent tone of Watkins' draft report, the San Francisco department of public health and the federal Centers for Disease Control predicted last week, for the first time, that infection with the AIDS virus will almost certainly result...
Punctuation, then, is a matter of care. Care for words, yes, but also, and more important, for what the words imply. Only a lover notices the small things: the way the afternoon light catches the nape of a neck, or how a strand of hair slips out from behind an ear, or the way a finger curls around a cup. And no one scans a letter so closely as a lover, searching for its small print, straining to hear its nuances, its gasps, its sighs and hesitations, poring over the secret messages that lie in every cadence. The difference between...