Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder Dr. Postma's mother wanted "to leave this life." The best thing her "merciful" doctor-daughter had to give her was a fatal shot of morphine to relieve her "unbearable mental suffering," instead of taking her home and giving her a daughter's love and care...
...county medical examiner testified that Whiting had died of an overdose of drugs, including methaqualone, Benadryl and a Librium-type drug. However, a pharmacologist hired by Whiting's mother said that the amount of methaqualone in Whiting's bloodstream need not have been fatal. Left unexplained was how Whiting's blood came to be on a pillowcase, towel, tissues and the washbasin in his own room, as well as on a blue sweater he had apparently been wearing. Also unaccounted for were the severe cut on the back of his head and scratches on his stomach, chest...
...polish, and his Sir Galahad morality. Altman's film is basically a wallow in the atmosphere of Los Angeles today. Altman's virtues are a good eye and some talent with actors, as well as a healthy distaste for the Hollywood culture which surrounds him. But his flaws are fatal: he doesn't know what makes a plot hold water, and can't give his characters enough of a past to make them interesting. He's not the director I would have picked up for a Chandler outing...
...contained cells that recognized the recipient of this gift as "foreign." The new cells, in a phenomenon known as "graft v. host" reaction, thus rejected the host, producing lymphocytes capable of reacting with and destroying his tissue. In fact, the reaction, combined with infection and other factors, could prove fatal to the recipient whose immune system was either weak or absent...
...major crippler of children, and rubella, or German measles, which can cause serious birth defects in the children of women who contract it while pregnant. It has led to a broader understanding of allergies and an effective method of preventing erythroblastosis fetalis, a blood condition that can prove fatal to infants shortly after birth...