Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because the average person will be far too cautious to risk even a single totally worthless encounter, we will see the transformation of the medical clinic into a kind of after-hours meeting place where nervous but lonely people will be able to undergo a battery of health tests and, while awaiting the results, stop by the bar to enjoy a trendy snack with others who may have the same ailment. (I predict that honey-roasted songbirds will be the snack of choice by then because they will turn out to be the last remaining edible creature that is domestically...
...Kirn's SHE NEEDED ME (Pocket Books; $20) is a pale young fellow named Weaver % Walquist, who, becalmed and lacking direction, joins the antiabortion protest squad of an evangelical church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He collides with a pregnant young woman named Kim during a protest at an abortion clinic, and at first is attracted to the idea of saving her fetus and her soul. Then, faintly -- a puff of wind ruffles the calm -- he is attracted to her. Kirn, author of a 1990 story collection, My Hard Bargain, plays fair with both the churchly and the wicked -- middling people...
Students for Choice Co-President Lily J. Shapiro '93 said that Jimenez became the first victim of the legislation because she could not afford to go to a proper clinic for her abortion...
Today, 6-9 p.m.: Harrington School, 850Cambridge St.; Windsor Health Clinic, 105 WindsorSt.; Fire Engine House, Inman Square; City Hall,795 Mass Ave.; Fire Engine House, 176 River St.;Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway; PeabodySchool, Linnean and Walker Sts.; Parish House, 11Garden St.; Fire Engine House, Lexington Ave.;Senior Center, 2050 Mass Ave.; and FitzgeraldSchool, 70 Rindge...
...similar fix, Long's modern-day counterparts would convene focus groups to test various excuses. (The likely winner: "When I made that campaign promise, I had a serious substance-abuse problem, but now I'm leading my class at a nationally ranked recovery clinic.") Then a top speechwriter would embellish the confession, and a media consultant would orchestrate the requisite appearance on Geraldo. But all this high-priced talent could not alter reality -- a broken campaign promise is still a breach of trust. Lies are still lies. The trick is knowing how to recognize them...