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Word: comas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film's center lies in the bond between Julia Roberts as the young woman serenely accepting the risk of childbirth and Sally Field as her tightly wound mother, wanting to scream warnings at her daughter but only able to whisper despairing support for her -- right through the final coma. Their characters are fully and finely realized, and their work is supported, not subverted, by the style and mood of a film that cries more easily, and more persuasively, than it laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festive Film Fare for Thanksgiving: Steel Magnolias | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...clandestine study became public in late June after a San Francisco volunteer suffocated on his vomit after coming out of a coma ten days following his first dose of Compound Q. The FDA launched an investigation into the underground trials, which Project Inform suspended. Two other volunteers have since died, one in San Francisco and one in New York. Levin says the death of one of the San Francisco men was indirectly related to Compound Q, while the cause of the New York man's death has yet to be determined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guerrilla Drug Trials: The Underground Test Of Compound Q | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...excluding gays and lesbians. Of course, Lee presided over a council meeting at which the issue was debated in no uncertain terms. Yet he still voted in favor of ROTC. In true Reaganesque fashion, we are left with two possible explanations: Either Lee conducted the meeting while in a coma, or he lied about his ignorance...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Lies, Damned Lies, Council Ads | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

...secret study, organized by a San Francisco-based group of AIDS activists called Project Inform, came to light after one of the patients died. He went into a coma, later awoke but then choked while vomiting -- ten days after his first Compound-Q treatment. The FDA has launched an investigation of the study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drugs From The Underground | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...York State division of youth. "It does not answer the question Why do some teenagers in the same environment get into trouble and others do not?" There were those still willing to look for the hard answers last week. But others could only watch a woman in a coma, hear the noises of the city and wonder what might come next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilding in The Night | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

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