Word: coma
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...crushed beneath the girders. She begged them to try another way. "She was in shock, but very alert. We said, regardless, we are going to do it." The risk, the team agreed, was that without immediate surgery, Bradley would quickly lapse into a coma...
...operation no modern surgeon outside of a battlefield thought he would ever perform. Giving her much painkiller would also increase the risk of coma, so as Dana screamed, a surgeon used surgical saws, scissors and scalpels to remove the leg below the knee. When they were done, they hauled her out with a chest harness and carried her 100 yards on a gurney to a waiting ambulance. Only later did the doctors learn that she had lost her mother and two children in the blast...
...center of the fairy tale a prince (Peter Gallagher), not the customary princess, lies sleeping. He's in a coma, having been saved from death by a pertly pining princess (Sandra Bullock) who, loving him from afar, is unaware that he's really a toad in disguise...
...sleeping prince and Bill Pullman as the man Bullock eventually discovers is her true love. Bullock plays a token taker on the Chicago El who, while admiring Gallager from afar, has never spoken to him. She saves Gallager's life in an accident that leaves him temporarily in a coma. His family, clustered around his bedside, mistakes Bullock for his fiance (a fiction she encourages) and we're off in a movie thatTIME movie reviewer Richard Schickelsays recaptures the true spirit of the best kind of modern fairy tale--classic romantic comedy...
Nothing seems to go right for this movie. The most talented actor, Peter Gallagher, languishes in a coma almost for the duration of the film. The most affecting moment--when Jack proposes marriage to Lucy by dropping a diamond ring into her dish of tokens--comes after such inanity that most of the audience has already tuned...