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Even at the bedside, there was still a chance for someone to realize that something had gone desperately wrong. Lehman's blood tests showed abnormal readings, and her electrocardiogram indicated enormous stresses on her heart. "She was vomiting sheets of tissue," her husband Robert Distel told the Globe. "[The doctors] said this was the worst they had ever seen." But they considered Lehman's violent reaction to be normal for such an aggressive treatment. All told, at least five hospital staff members failed to figure out that their therapy was killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DISTURBING CASE OF THE CURE THAT KILLED THE PATIENT | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...Berlin cabaret famous for its risque pillorying of the former political order, would be overjoyed at the fall of the Communists and the prospect of unification with the West. Imagine: no more hassles with the censors, complete artistic freedom, new crowds from the West flocking to his place, Die Distel. But Lyscik is more worried than cheered. Under the Communists, he notes, "we got 13 marks per ticket in subsidies. Tickets cost patrons only 1.50 marks. Now we are already up to 4 to 8 marks, and we don't know from day to day if we will continue getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, Let's Get Together, But . . . | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

PORTRAIT OF PETULA (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). In a musical special, Petula Clark gets an assist from Andy Williams, Sacha Distel and Ron Moody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 4, 1969 | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...been turned back 30 or 40 years. The highways are potholed and traffic ranges from light to nonexistent. The blue haze of soft-coal smoke seems to shroud the cities, adding to the ever-present smells of cabbage and disinfectant. The cautious satirists in East Berlin's Distel (Thistle) cabaret suggested one socialist solution for some of East Germany's ills: nose plugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: The Unpleasant Reality | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

Continuing an old French bedroom farce, Parisian Director Roger Vadim sadly announced that he will divorce his second wife, Danish-born Cinemactress Annette Stroyberg, because she is spending all her time with Sacha Distel, the same guitar-strumming troubadour who once paid court to Vadim's first wife, Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot. But that wasn't all: BB's current marriage to nervous Cinemactor Jacques Charrier is reported to be on the skids, and BB of late has longed aloud for Vadim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 18, 1960 | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

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