Word: heals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...necessary for the townsfolk, who are stupid and sinful in more ordinary ways, to avoid being drawn into his vengeful scheming, to find a sweet hereafter in which they can at least partly heal. It is a young woman (Sarah Polley)--surely the daughter Stephens wishes he might have had--who opens them to that state of grace in this solemn, subtly structured, beautifully acted and ultimately hypnotic movie...
...Williams' future, Chautauqua prosecutors plan to charge him with first-degree assault in the cases of those who contracted HIV from him. But that may do little to heal the trauma he has inflicted on circles of Jamestown youth. The hope offered by new AIDS treatments still hasn't entered their thinking. "There's nothing to do now," says Danielle Rapp, 18, "but watch your friends...
...home, some 50 miles northeast of San Francisco, and find her lying immobile in a filthy bed. "She was not turned and kept clean and dry, which led to the bedsores," Ann recalls. A bedsore on Bessie's left hip turned into a gaping wound that would not heal, despite repeated whirlpool baths. Creekside nurse Patricia Lloyd knew why: the special washing machine for cleaning dirty bedpans had broken down. "So we washed bedpans in the whirlpool," she says, "and then we'd put patients with big bedsores, like Bessie Seday, in there." Fixing Bessie's wound required repeated surgery...
...bonds of family heal all ills. Whether or not Anderson had ironic intent when he chose to find an American story in the sex industry is a matter for artistic interpretation. Regardless, as one watches the ideals of our nation so seamlessly grafted on to the foundation of hard-core porn, the patriotic heart must swell. Dirk Diggler reminds us that the American dream is no longer about hard work aided by a bit of good fortune. It's about rising on the wings of mediocrity and claims of entitlement. It's about gratifying those in the position to facilitate...
...States address issues of death inadequately and dying in their training programs, offering on average zero to four hours of relevant lecture time. Only five of the 126 U.S. medical schools have a separate required course on the care of the dying. Physicians are taught how to cure diseases, heal patients and save lives at almost all costs, but not how to cope with life's inevitable final chapter...