Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scenes of South African policemen lashing black demonstrators with leather whips called sjamboks have become all too familiar. Last week a young government doctor turned the spotlight on another pervasive form of police violence: the beating and torturing of detained prisoners. Dr. Wendy Orr, 25, who noted that inmates she treated in two Port Elizabeth prisons were often physically abused, sought a restraining order against the police. Said she: "Detainees are being taken out of my care . . . and during the course of interrogation are brutally assaulted." In an official acknowledgment of such violence in South African jails, the state supreme...
...part in the liars' competition. "I had to give up hunting two or three years ago," he explained. "Afraid I'd get hurt tramping around. I backed off a creek bank once. Don't know why I'm here to tell it today. My daddy was a country doctor from over in Franklin County. Did I just drift off again? Well, they tell me you get that way when...
...some time, has begun behaving oddly. He rips up Susan's copy of Saul Bellow's novel Herzog. He pays a call on his mother and hurls an ashtray into the TV set. He tells Stanley that Old Testament patriarchs are spying on him. Stanley phones Cliff Wainwright, a doctor and an old friend, and asks for help with Steve: "I'm afraid he's mad." This judgment is confirmed by Dr. Alfred Nash, a crusty old psychiatrist who examines Steve and diagnoses acute schizophrenia. Nash asks the father about mental illness elsewhere in the family, and Stanley opines that...
Many gay activists fear that the stigma of AIDS will wipe out almost two decades of progress in homosexual rights. Tales of AIDS-related homophobia abound: in New York City, some diners avoid restaurants that have gay waiters. In Washington, D.C., a doctor requires gays to be tested for AIDS before he will give them hair transplants. In Louisville, city detectives donned rubber gloves before entering a gay bar to check for underage drinkers. Says Ken Vance, director of a gay counseling center in Houston: "It's going to get worse before it gets better. As more people become aware...
Cancer used to be the most dreaded word to be uttered in a doctor's office. But cancer no longer means a virtual sentence of death. AIDS does. AIDS therefore sounds with a peculiar and absolute resonance in our minds. It catches echoes of the voice of God and of nuclear doom. AIDS carries significances that go beyond the numbers of those afflicted...