Word: docs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ADOLF HITLER AND HIS JACKbooted cohort had Horst Wessel and Wagner's Teutonic blood-music to get them in the mood. Former neo-Nazi hooligan Ingo Hasselbach and his Doc Martens--style head bangers had Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols...
...much more to say. There will be other olestra products, if and when the FDA gives P&G the green light. But right now the chips are all we have, and the chips are all right. Nobody experiences digestive uproar, so we don't get to find out whether Doc Sweeney is really standing by his phone...
...mouth to get him in trouble--for instance, Saddam Hussein appearing on Iraqi TV before the Gulf War, sipping whiskey and carving a ham, both forbidden in Islam. (In Haiti the CIA had even thought of synthesizing the voice of the late and much feared dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier to urge superstitious soldiers to surrender.) For now, ethics and strategy argue against such tactics. Says Colonel Jeffrey Jones, former commander of the psy-ops group: "The truth is our best weapon...
...shifted, maybe broadened. A theme that recurs is of white medics in Africa. Heroism here consists of crumbling into alcoholism, drugs and depression as slowly as possible, and with as much grace. Occasional joyousness is real but fragmented. The narrator of the title story is a washed-up doc, fired from his African aid mission and back home in the U.S., who is taking his depressed and institutionalized sister for an outing. They kid around about death and heaven, then veer into cheerfulness: "I'm thinking that I'm gonna be all right, and in the meantime what...
...hospitals that later employed Sacks would never do as sets for a TV-doc opera. He has worked for years under drab and underfunded conditions, treating cases that most physicians rarely see: Tourette's syndrome, which can cause uncontrollable tics and twitches and outbursts of profanity; or brain injuries that preserve old memories but prevent the forming of new ones...