Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul Elvis, Albert Goldman ∙ Lectures on Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling ∙ The Physicists, C.P. Snow Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcolm
...that Victor has been sitting in the same wooden, straight back chair in Stillman library every day for the past three years, seven hours a day. Occasionally he fools some of his friends by leaving for three minutes to get a drink of water at the "bubbler," or a Doctor Pepper in the automated vending "Machine City," which crazy Victor calls one of the hottest pick up spots on campus. But usually Victor is more than easily accessible, and always ready to speak on the virtues of Yale. "I've talked to a lot of people." Victor says...
Despite Ragtime (made at his doctor's suggestion and Forman's urging), Cagney, too, could stay home. He has never enjoyed self-promotion, preferring the quiet of his 800-acre farm near Amenia, N.Y. The comfortable stone house is as simple and solid as he is. He and his wife of 58 years, Billie, occasionally entertain friends like Mikhail Baryshnikov but venture forth only rarely. They journeyed to the White House when Ragtime was screened for the President, and this week at the New York Press Club, Cagney will memorialize his old friend Robert Montgomery, who died...
...amphetamines to Presley and ten other patients. During the 16 days of testimony in Memphis, the prosecution said the physician had prescribed more than 12,000 doses of various drugs to Presley in the last 20 months of his life. But defense witnesses painted a picture of a doctor who took in patients other doctors had spurned, a "good Samaritan" who tried to curb Presley's habit. Last week the jury returned its verdict: not guilty on all counts...
...Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul Elvis, Albert Goldman ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling ∙ The Physicists, C.P. Snow ∙ Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcolm