Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a Long Island, N.Y., service-station operator named Franklin Mirando checked into a suburban hospital in July 1975 for the implanting of an artificial hip joint, he had little reason for concern. Such operations are routinely performed more than 100,000 times a year in the U.S., and have kept countless people on their feet who might otherwise be left permanently crippled by arthritis and other ailments. But Mirando's surgery turned into a permanent nightmare. He was left in constant pain, with a right leg two inches shorter than his left and unable to walk without crutches...
Last week New York authorities charged that critical phases of Mirando's hip implant were done not by his surgeons but by a medical-equipment salesman who had no more than an eighth-grade education. Calling it "the most scandalous case it has ever been my duty to prosecute," the Suffolk County, N.Y., district attorney has already obtained indictments against the two doctors, as well as the anesthesiologist, supervisory nurse and hospital, charging them with second-degree assault and the attempted cover-up of a crime. The four individuals have pleaded not guilty. But state investigators say that...
...best. On this particular morning, on this particular Saturday, on this particular Soldiers Field, on this particular planet, on this particular page, Harvard will be playing McGill. That's a school in Canada. The McGillicuddies will be fully equipped for the match, wearing their favorite shoulder pads, hip pads, helmets and skates. And they'll be trying to score tries with the benefit of their sticks, which have just the right amount of black tape on them...
Russo, a six-foot, 230-pound senior from Everett, Ma., suffered a dislocated hip during practice on Wednesday afternoon. Russo was injured when he was caught in the bottom of a pile-up during scrimmage...
...latter, wholesome, all-American production that it is. Perhaps it would have been better going for the junkies. Benson falls for the tutor assigned to him by the athletic department, played by the appealing Annette O'Toole. She hates jocks, hates them with a passion, as does her hip psychology professor boyfriend. But Benson's earnestness soon makes her give up the obnoxious prof for her tutee, who convinces her that sports in themselves aren't all bad at the same time she initiates him to the pleasures of reading more than a playbook. The two make a sickeningly cute...