Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel, written in epistolary form, concentrated more on the dark laughter of the rehab clinic. The movie, which drops the postcards but keeps the edge, is a show-biz mother-daughter film par excellence -- Terms of Endearment out of Gypsy. Suzanne has her poignant wrangles with movie types (nice turns by Dennis Quaid and Rob Reiner as producers, Gene Hackman and Simon Callow as directors), but Postcards is bound by family ties. MacLaine gives a wonderfully excessive rendition of the Sondheim song I'm Still Here: "First you're another sloe-eyed vamp,/ Then someone's mother, then...
...pasta, potatoes and beans, maybe some green vegetables. You take the bus, or you kind of carpool it, riding with someone and helping with the gas. If you're pregnant, you don't begin prenatal care until your seventh, eighth or ninth month, because even at a public health clinic, it's $25 a visit...
...simple. The victim of rape or incest is often herself an innocent child in need of saving. Pamela (a pseudonym) was a seventh-grader in Washington when she was allegedly raped by her stepfather. When her mother discovered she was pregnant, she took her to a Planned Parenthood clinic just ten blocks from the White House to arrange an abortion. "She was pitiful," recalls clinic director Mary Vandenbroucke, who had to break the news that Medicaid would not pay the $400 cost of an abortion, even for a case like Pamela's. Although the mother works two jobs...
Since then it has been mid-July every day of the year. Dr. Lynn is now the head of a group health clinic, and the Rev. Robert has retired from his parish in order to devote himself to "staring at the walls of my houseboat." After all, he figures, "to ponder is to wonder at a deep level." Besides, out of all that woolgathering, book No. 3, Meatloaf in B Flat Major, will emerge next year. Even now, thoughts are surfacing like salmon in Lake Washington. "The grass," he notices, "is not, in fact, always greener on the other side...
...notorious Romanian "black town" of Copsa Mica, the trees and grass are so stained by soot that they look as if they have been soaked in ink. "Even horses can stay here for only a couple of years," says Dr. Alexandru Balin, who works in a local occupational-health clinic. "Then they have to be taken away, or else they will...