Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...receive similar rebuffs and elusively Delphic answers. Like the psychiatrist in Equus, who was forced to question his reasoned image of civilization vs. the boy's irrational Dionysian passion, the psychiatrist in Agnes of God is forced to question her reliance on scientific knowledge vs. Agnes' beatific display of faith...
This is the most piquant of the family plays, an agile display of comic irony and sociocultural observation. It takes place on a California patio, that never-ever land. It includes a middle-aged husband whose wife has been made desolate by his supposed philandering. Actually, the poor devil has long been impotent, his only mistress being an omnipresent slug of 100-proof oblivion. The couple's unemployed son lives in a '51 Pontiac in the garage. He objects to a mobile home on the grounds that it would be "too permanent." Their daughter is a nude, neurotic...
...same time, this display of fiscal firmness is failing to impress its intended audience. The program's goal is to prove to the business world that Carter is man enough to grit his teeth and make the helpless bite the bullet--thereby reversing self-fulfilling inflationary expectations. But the consensus on Wall Street is that not enough old people will freeze, too few children will go hungry and, in short, stricter discipline is necessary...
...cheaply produced tablet free from serious side-effects, dapsone has become the world's chief method of combating leprosy. Although the bacteria causing HD display increasing signs of developing resistance to the drug, dapsone remains an effective means of arresting the illness when a patient suffers from the pure-tuberculoid strain, a less-severe type of HD. Victims with this form of illness can usually expect to lead perfectly normal lives without any of the scars and deformities ordinarily associated with leprosy, if doctors diagnose the condition at an early stage...
...Others display greater imagination when conducting their search. One friend mingled work and pleasure into perhaps the ultimate melange. For six weeks, he toiled as a pipefitter's assistant for the princely, Baybank-crisp wage of $9.90 an hour. For the rest of the summer, he sailed around the world. Other lucrative offerings not to be sneered at: the assembly line at General Motors ($8.00 an hour), the meat-processing department at Fenway Franks ($8.50 an hour), and computer work, which ranges in wage from $10 to $15 an hour...