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...many terminally ill patients and their families, it's having the option that counts. When Annemie Douwes Dekker's husband Hink was first told he had multiple sclerosis in 1978, his family doctor agreed to discuss the possibilities of euthanasia if and when the time came. "That was a great help to us," Annemie recalled. Five years later Hink, then 50, had been in a nursing home for a year and was deteriorating rapidly, losing his ability to communicate and control bodily functions. Yet, says his widow, now 62 and living in Haarlem, "he had a strong heart; he could...
Regarding the coming season. Collins was more definitive. "I'm very optimistic," he said. "People probably hink we'll be weak in the offensive and defensive lines and also the defensive backfield, since we're losing so many people. But this is a senior-oriented program, and we've got so many capable juniors and sophomores who would have played this year if they had gone somewhere else who can step...
Still, I've been thinking a lot lately about things like the Platonic idea--and I hit upon the notion that in the shadow world which is Cambridge. Tommy's is really the imperfect reflection of Sardi's. I really hink so. Go in there on any weekend night and you'll see what I mean. I mean Sardi's back in the old days--back when gangsters went there, and showgirls, and all those members of what they called high society. Tommy's is like that too, in that too--in a strangely refracted way. The gangsters are usually...
What do they do on a rainy day in Britain? Last week, the cables of the Associated Press were humming with the news. They play hink pink. How? Well, one Briton says to another, "Hink pink, convict?" If the other is quick on the trigger, he answers smartly: "Bad lad!" "Hink pink, sculpture," might draw the reply: "Bust trust." For advanced players the game can run into two syllables. Samples: "Hinky pinky, Palestine." Answer: "Skittish British." Possible, but inadvisable except for postgraduates, is the three-syllable challenge: "Hinkitty pinkitty, no more Molotov." The answer would, of course, be: "Bevinly Heavenly...
Said a British psychiatrist, caught red-handed playing hink pink last week with a doctor, a radio writer and a journalist: "It can be frightfully intellectual...