Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...historic Charles Bridge and the Vltava River, or in special rooms reserved for him at the Palace of Culture itself. Both places, it was reported, were outfitted with special oxygen and medical equipment. As is usually the case when he travels abroad, he was accompanied by a doctor with selected medicines and supplies of his blood type at the ready...
...town butcher (Joseph Leon) sweeps dirt off his porch into his house. Told to lower her voice, the wife (Mary Louise Wilson) of an eye doctor (Harold Gould) scrunches toward the floor. Occasionally, Simon abandons these hoary vaudeville turns for a flash of absurdist humor. The doctor's daughter (Pamela Reed), adorable as she is dumb, is asked what her favorite color is and replies, "Yellow. . . because it doesn't stick to your fingers so much." Her mother mutters: "I think she's wrong. I think it's blue...
...village curse through true love. Rubinstein is an ardent and vastly sympathetic performer, but neither he nor the deft comic ministrations of Director Mike Nichols can salvage this show. For whatever it may mean, Simon's two weakest efforts in 19 plays have a Russian connection, The Good Doctor, a kind of Chekhovian doodle, and now Fools. When next tempted in that direction, he should probably say nyet. -By T.E. Kalem
From that conclusion, Ruge's approach to White House health was plotted. He would not stalk the President, believing that an overzealous doctor can create a dependent patient...
Reagan was his own best doctor in many ways, Ruge noted. The President could pace himself, discipline his appetites, his activity. "He simply knows how to take care of himself," declared Ruge. That is in marked contrast to the excesses of work and indulgence seen in other Presidents, notably L.B. J. Ruge has studied carefully the White House environment, Reagan's state of mind, any symptoms of stress. What he found was reassuring. He noted that those who traveled with the President, whether staff or Secret Service agents, genuinely liked him. That aura, created in large part by Reagan...