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Word: diana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps it's just a clever plot, but Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay of The Hospital hides almost the same assumption and a few more to boot. Rapist (George C. Scott, playing a doctor) and rapee (Diana Rigg) fall in love; Scott, his flagging potency restored, finds life worth living again; Rigg is cured of her nymphomania. Meanwhile life-and death-in a big New York City hospital goes on. The story evades numerous intriguing issues: Rigg has a potentially interesting madman for a father. He causes chaos in this wonderland of technological medicine, but he assures us that in Mexico...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Doctor Scott | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...placards and demanding that the hospital relinquish its development land to the people; there's an abortion which provides contemporary color but gives no hint of its potentially controversial aspects; Scott mentions having thrown his "long-haired hippie son" out of the house but hardly seems to recognize in Diana Rigg a member of the same generation. He's more interested in the revelations of her short skirt than in its ideological connotations. There's another doctor--an old-fashioned slimy-capitalist type--who's set up a private practice for immense personal profit and continually refers...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Doctor Scott | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...Died. Diana Cooper DeBakey, 62, wife of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, the pioneer in cardiac surgery and transplants; of a heart attack; in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 21, 1972 | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...Gaye 10. Where Did Our Love Go? Donnie Elbert 11. Tired of Being Alone Al Green 12. Never Can Say Goodbye Isaac Hayes-Jackson 5 13. American Pie Don McLean 14. Maggie Redbone 15. Spanish Harlem Aretha Franklin 16. Family Affair Sly and the Family Stone 17. Remember Me Diana Ross 18. Cool Aid Paul Humphrey 19. Long Promised Road Beach Boys 20. Don't Change on Me Ray Charles 21. We Were Always Sweethearts Boz Scaggs 22. I Like What You Give Nolan 23. I Don't Blame You At All Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 24. Wild Horses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tops of 1971 | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

...large area he was trying to write about. I thought your readers would like to be brought up to date concerning some of the characters Mr. Clarke mentioned. First, Superman has decided to keep his superpowers to aid mankind; Wonder Woman has lost her powers and is now simply Diana Prince ("She's still dynamite in a fight"); Robin is in college, while his partner Batman ("the creature of the night") fights crime alone. Green Lantern, who now has a black substitute, has won the best-individual-story and best-continuing-feature awards given by the Academy of Comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 3, 1972 | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

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