Word: godsends
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...first in vitro baby in the U.S. was born three years later, and since then the procedure has been responsible for 26,000 more births in America alone. For women with blocked or scarred Fallopian tubes that prevent eggs from reaching the uterus, the technology has been a godsend. But for others, particularly those in whom doctors cannot find the reason for infertility, in vitro can be an exercise in frustration. It is expensive (about $7,800 for each attempt, three or four of which are often needed to achieve success) and not covered by many insurance plans...
...world greeted the birth of Louise Joy Brown on July 25, 1978, with fanfare fit for a princess. Many hailed her as a technological godsend, dubbing her the "Baby of the Century." However, theologians and some scientists sounded ethical alarms. Others questioned whether the girl conceived in a petri dish could ever lead a normal life. The answer? Almost. According to London's Daily Mail, Brown works in a burger joint and is studying to be a school nurse--but is reportedly buoyed by a trust fund of earnings from TV projects and the book written by her parents. Brown...
Stripping the Guerre story of its suspense, composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and lyricist Alain Boublil establish from the start that the new, improved Martin is a fraud--and a godsend to the virgin wife Bertrande. That's fine; we want to know why she connives in the deception. But the plot is hoked up with religious pieties (Huguenots are the new Bosnians) and a psycho villain desperate to take any Martin's place in Bertrande's bed. It's Romeo and Juliet without the poetry, or an Oklahoma! that...
Soloist Shoshana "Shasa" Dobrow '97 won HRO's Concerto Competition with the piece and it must be a godsend for a bassoonist--there's not much opportunity to shine with the instrument. Probably the best-known bassoon writing is Stravinsky's, such as the solo that begins "The Rite of Spring;" but Stravinsky produces a plaintive, wailing tone which is far from Weber's classical vocabulary...
...This is a miracle, an absolute bloody miracle," effuses Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax Films. It was surely a godsend to the bustling, Disney-owned distributor, which had no big hit in 1995 to match such previous successes as The Piano, The Crow and Pulp Fiction. But if luck is the residue of design, the Postino nominations were the result of a savvy Miramax marketing campaign...