Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close their doors. Both sides thought the case was the one this term most likely to give the court an opportunity to repeal Roe. But after weeks of negotiation, a settlement was announced last week between the state and the American Civil Liberties Union, which was representing a doctor who had challenged the rules. The state dropped the equipment requirements while retaining its right to inspect clinics and enforce health and safety rules...
...rushed semiconscious to a Boston hospital, where her stomach was pumped. Kitty Dukakis had in a desperate and irrational act downed some rubbing alcohol. These days liquor is forbidden in the Dukakis home. At first Kitty tried to conceal the real story, but two days later, the family doctor released a guarded statement declaring she was suffering from exhaustion and depression. Kitty, the statement explained, had lately been taking antidepressants, a perilous mix with alcohol of any sort...
THREE of Hoss' buddies give terrific back-up performances. David " 'Vid" Buttaro and Randal Jean Baptiste provide moments of refreshing comic relief as astrologer and general space cadet Starman and hip deejay Galactic Jack. In addition, Glenn Kiser's clever portrayal of Hoss' doctor, a cowboy-boot-wearing drug supplier, leaves the audience wishing Shepard had given this character more lines...
Unfortunately, all Doctor Stuart Framingham (Anthony Korotko Hatch) wants to do is sleep with Prudence, and Mrs. Charlotte Wallace (Magda Hernandez), Bruce's analyst, is too busy searching for cookies to listen to his problems. Bruce runs to Prudence, Prudence runs from Bob, Charlotte runs after both of them, and everyone runs from Dr. Framingham. It's all in vain, however; the characters are doomed to meet up in the same "existential restaurant" in which Bruce and Prudence had their first encounter...
...will embrace Christy, the filmmakers are free to make him as stubborn as he is courageous. For Christy everything begins with will: the will to be understood, to do well things he would not be thought able to do at all and, later, to be loved by the pretty doctor who would only admire and inspire...