Word: danae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Albert J. Meyer, who is currently undergoing treatment for leukemia at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has contracted a serious bacterial infection, and a blood drive is underway to help him combat this recent complication...
Meyer is suffering from hairy cell leukemia, which prevents his bone marrow from manufacturing enough white blood cells to combat the infection, according to Dr. Thomas J. Ervin, medical director of the Dana-Farber blood components laboratory...
Though only "O" type blood donors can give to Meyer, others are encouraged because Dana-Farber can trade for "O" type with the American Red Cross, Anita B. Safron, a friend of Meyer's, said yesterday...
Good performances, especially by Rip Torn and Dana Hill, play against the sweetness and come close to expressing the wrenching loyalties of familial love. Peter Coyote, as Rawlings' future husband, exudes steely authority from behind his gentle smile and bow tie-a humanized George Will. But Mary Steenburgen, an actress of eaglet resourcefulness, looks both too frail and too stubborn to bring Rawlings to life. One wishes Cross Creek well; one wishes even more that it were better. -By Richard Corliss
...materials such as polyester--a cardinally sinful item and zippers. "You have to have an idea of who you're trying to be If you want to be a peasant, don't buy velvet. You have to be authentic. People will point it out if you're not," says Dana Gass '85, who revitalized Harvard's SCA chapter last year...