Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game and one of its top earners--she has her own sneaker contract and children's book--was a little hesitant to tell the fledgling W.N.B.A. that she was pregnant, but says it was very supportive. Nevertheless, she waited only two days after the birth to ask her doctor if she could start training. And she wants another child, "eventually--not any time soon." At least not this season...
...contemporary audience and reflect the world their authors see around them. The lost children in Shopping, the vomiting drug users and underage "rent boys" that Ravenhill depicts with such clear-eyed intelligence, are not there to chastise or shock the audience any more than a stripper and a doctor in Marber's Closer are there simply to comment on sex as a transaction or on socialized medicine. These characters exist not to tell us something we already knew when we came into the theater but to represent particular, idiosyncratic habits of mind and give voice to something that could...
...ranks of the hungry? Many are neither jobless nor homeless. "It's the working poor," says Leona Martens, director of the Weld Food Bank in Greeley. In the Colorado town, those asking for help range from seasonal farmworkers sidelined by bad weather to families hit by sudden expenses like doctor bills or new car batteries. Says Barbara Mocnik, executive director of a food bank in Newport News: "The job market is there. The income isn't." Many of the new part-time jobs in Newport News pay so little that they cannot cover basic expenses...
...part of an entourage that has included a defense-team press agent, marking an embarrassing low point in the history of an organization that never worried about its image; the cross-pollinated offspring of the Chin's wife and the Upper East Side mistress he lives with; and a doctor who carries a medical bag and a look of impending crisis. "Let's check his blood pressure," a family member said gravely during a break. Judge Jack Weinstein has ordered medical personnel to wear something other than white lab coats, and told the shabbily dressed Chin to present himself...
...prepare for it." He says of the Sherman Oaks incident, "It was a time when I was working very hard, and I should have been home resting. My marriage wasn't going very well, and it was a difficult time in my life." He says that any medication "was doctor-prescribed. It was no more than taking an aspirin." He insists that his temper flare-ups are over. "I had to learn to keep myself together--to understand that drinking excessively can get you into trouble." He says he and his ex-wife "have to stay in communication" because...