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...what happens when that noble ideal runs up against fallible human beings. Rabe--who in the 1970s wrote big, impassioned plays about Vietnam (Streamers)--works on a much smaller canvas here. He immerses us in clinical details--like the doctor's careful instructions on how to take a fatal dose of pills (one at a time, with as little water as possible) or the compulsive conversation of the victim's lover (Stephen Spinella), who forces himself to go out to a movie when the deed is done. The narrow focus can be constricting (this is a small play...
Life for HIV-positive people in Cambridge and across America today entails a variety of obstacles, from the day-to-day strain of living with a usually fatal and often unpredictable disease to the trauma of discrimination in housing, employment and medical treatment...
...shall begin my case history in a rather idyllic setting--Harvard Yard at midnight, covered in freshly fallen snow. A few weeks ago when winter was still winter, some friends and I decided to recapture the abandon of childhood by frolicking in the winter wonderland. Unfortunately, we made a fatal error. Our recreation included some playful snowball tossing. Across the Yard some fellow students caught notice of this apparently provocative activity. The observers descended from their dorms to take up the contest...
Castellano said that he was aware that blood poisoning is potentially fatal if it goes untreated, adding that crew coaches had often emphasized the need to keep open blisters clean, and that the river water could have contributed to the infection...
...most importantly, Tais says, the mice "were especially sensitive to suffering fatal seizures...