Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Catastrophic health care was only the first problem addressed in assisting the chronically ill who desperately need help in paying for nursing-home and home health care. As the population grays, those demands will grow. But paying for programs projected to cost $30 billion to $50 billion a year will...
Calling his campaign one of "accessibility, availability, compassion and good judgement," State Representative hopeful Alvin E. Thompson minimized his political differences with his opponent yesterday.
But Another Woman is the work of the mature Allen, who has aspired to Bergmanesque seriousness and, after Interiors and September, has finally achieved it. His film is a variation on the master's masterpiece, Persona, but it has what Allen's other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit. Not that...
Can it be bridged? At times Terkel is overtaken by despair: "What had presumably been our God-anointed patch of green appears to be, for millions of us, a frozen tundra." Yet the author cannot maintain a long face. After repeatedly exposing the country's down side, he expresses his...
Perhaps Updike attracts more serious appelations because his tone is often so harsh, his attitude so scornful of those he writes about. But Tyler's unrelenting compassion for her characters is intense but not maudlin. We should not mistake her sweetness for light.