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...known to the world as "the bubble boy" because he has been confined to a small, sterile room in Houston for all twelve years of his fragile life. Born without a functioning immune system, David was sealed off from the world's germs, the slightest of which could kill him. Last week, 3½ months after he underwent a bone-marrow transplant intended to fortify his body's defenses, he emerged from his germ-free cocoon. It was, quite literally, a touching moment. For the first time in his life, he was hugged and kissed by his mother...
...Coed had casual sex and political principles; when their undeferred buddies were spilling blood on foreign soil; when a Republican President could inflame humanists simply by waving nuclear sabers at the Russkies. Ladies and gentlemen . . . the Seventies! All together now: "Up on your feet,/ Press all your points,/ Eat Germ of Wheat,/ Toke on your joints,/ Ev'rybody do the Doonesbury Drag...
...diseased cesspool," says McMurray. "Am I right or wrong," he yells to a dozen fellow diggers. "Right!" they holler, then go back to shoveling dirt into the gash that holds the ten coffins that Charlie Garcia has placed in their charge. "It's one germ after another [at Riker's Island]. If you don't have anything wrong with you going in, you will coming...
...change in the life pattern of the individual." Holmes found that among tuberculosis patients, for example, the onset of the disease had generally followed a cluster of disruptive events: a death in the family, a new job, marriage. Stress did not cause the illness, Holmes emphasizes-"It takes a germ"-but tension did seem to promote the disease process. Holmes discovered that merely discussing upsetting events could produce physiological changes. An experiment in which sample biopsies were taken before and after discussions of certain subjects showed that "we caused tissue damage just by talking about a mother...
Checkhov's paring away of the essential elements of the plot contains the germ of his genius, but it can also make dramatic tension difficult to sustain. As all attention is focused on the actors, it is sometimes difficult to retain audience interest through the lengthy and introspective soliloquies...