Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cielo near Santa Barbara, Calif., chopping wood and riding his horse Little Man.* He spent the flight west last Thursday cleaning out his briefcase and has firmly told his aides, who had proposed presidential visits to Alaska and Hawaii, that he has earned an uninterrupted vacation. Only a doctor and a military aide are at the ranch with Reagan. Chief of Staff James Baker will spend time alone fishing in Texas and Assistant Michael Deaver will retreat to the New England coast. Only Counsellor Edwin Meese will remain on duty, splitting his time between the White House and California. Says...
...evidence points much more to suicide than to foul play. It suggests that the earnest young horse doctor was distraught over an affair and went off alone to die. The Lake County, Ill., coroner found that Runkle, 28, died from an overdose of pentobarbital, a drug used in veterinary medicine as a sedative, probably swallowed in liquid form. There were no signs that it was administered forcibly. Says Lake County Chief of Detectives Frank Winans: "She voluntarily took either an accidental or deliberate overdose...
...French cinema smolders like an untended hearth fire. No more the giddiness of the New Wave, whose anarchic high spirits fragmented film language and frag-bombed bourgeois complacency. Twenty years later, the bourgeoisie is again dominant, but now more thoughtful, less ready to judge. Like a concerned family doctor, today...
...duffel bag. She is a marvelous behavioral actress. Smiles and tears are easy enough, but no one is better than Signoret at sitting still, daring life to try and impress her. Luckily for her, in France actors are not asked to stay svelte and sexy into senility. The family doctor looked at Signoret and encouraged her to put on weight, go gray, show her age, be herself-and still be a star. At 61, she has earned her Letter. -By Richard Corliss
...most political hay of numerical efficiency, the obsession did not die with the movement. Robert McNamara's body counts, and indeed the entire Vietnam experience in this country, probably did more than anything to prove the futility of excessive reliance on the numbers--on the experts. Robert Moses, Doctor Moses, as he liked to be called, had all the numbers, all the plans; the political mud was never slung at him. As much as it seemed so at the time. Moses did not have all the answers, but the public never knew. Until it was too late, no one even...