Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where the government provides free medical service, health costs have risen from 9.5% of G.N.P. in 1974 to 11.3% last year. As in Germany, the government is pressing for a hold-down; among other things, Sweden routinely denies expensive organ transplants to people over 70?a cruel but necessary form of rationing. Britain's National Health Service has done a better job of holding down costs; medical outlays as a percentage of G.N.P. (5.6% at last count, in 1977) have been fairly stable. But there has been a price to pay. The nation is suffering from a doctor shortage, because...
...proposing some form of national health insurance have been introduced in the House, and ten in the Senate this year...
DIED. Jean Rhys, 84, reclusive British author who wrote critically acclaimed novels in the '30s, disappeared for 20 years, and regained celebrity with the 1967 publication of Wide Sargasso Sea; in Exeter, England. Struck by her "instinct for form" and "almost lurid passion for stating the case of the underdog," Ford Madox Ford became her literary mentor and, ironically, a model for the contemptible men in her stories who invariably prey on fragile, Rhys-like heroines. Rhys, who was writing her memoirs when she died, observed: "If you want to write the truth, you must write about yourself...
Awkwardness. Embarrassment. Gradual. . . shame. The eyes start to bulge. The body tries to move, but the feet stay still. He runs in place from the waist up. Perspiration starts to form on the upper lips. There is just the suggestion . . . yes . . . a smile. But it is camouflage, a thin subterfuge hiding disorientation, incipient humiliation, blind panic...
...person. To compound his difficulties, a rather schizzy young woman (Janet Margolin) has mysteriously taken up residence in his apartment (her story of a mixed-up sublease does not wash awfully well). He is also in receipt of a death threat written in ancient Hebrew-not at all the form in which the Government generally drafts its pink slips...