Word: comas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Performing with suspended, comatose bodies is a tough assignment for any actress. No wonder Genevieve Bujold read the script of Coma, based on Robin Cook's bestselling chiller, and said, "Oh, my God, I don't know about this!" But her doctor-writer friend Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), author of the screenplay and the director, cajoled her into accepting the part. Bujold plays a surgical resident in a large Boston hospital who wonders why certain patients never regain consciousness after routine operations-and unravels a diabolical traffic in human organs. To inject as much realism as possible...
...chemists, it is known as phencyclidine hydrochloride, but youngsters on this latest and fastest-spreading high know it as "angel dust," "rocket fuel" and "goon." The substance packs such an unpredictable wallop that the user may lapse into a coma, hallucinate or bristle with hostility. In California and elsewhere, use of the drug -especially among teen-agers-has reached epidemic proportions. It accounts for 10% of all drug-overdose cases in some Los Angeles hospitals. San Francisco authorities suspect that at least five murders in the past year involved users of the compound. First developed in the 1950s by Parke...
...Kent Lanahan of Villanova, Pa. In 1949, at 19, he was standing on the running board of a car when it swerved into a utility pole. The crash crushed the young man's skull, broke his collarbone and punctured a lung. He was in a coma with a 107° fever and high pulse when doctors decided to cease treatment. A neighbor lent the parents a piece of Neumann's cassock. Soon after they touched Kent with the cloth he began to recover. Now a music teacher, Kent Lanahan says, "They couldn't explain what happened...
...upon as a sickness all children once had, as a kind of joke." Unfortunately, measles is no laughing matter. While the overwhelming majority of victims recover in a week to ten days, some develop pneumonia or encephalitis. If the measles virus spreads to the brain, it can cause convulsions, coma and brain damage, and sometimes death...
...wanted to bring the fire of Guernica to the one who had provoked it," he explains. "I wanted to give him a fiery abrazo." Elosegi missed his target and paid for his act with 17 days in a coma and 30 months in jail. One of the organizers of the anniversary remembrances, he is calmer today about the raid but no less committed. "Guernica was an obsession with me," he says. It is an obsession shared by hundreds of Guernica's inhabitants and countless other Spaniards as well...