Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Cambion management continued to refuse to bargain at recent meetings arranged by various parties--including federal and state mediators and City Manager James L. Sullivan--union leadership realized their position was hopeless and they recommended that the rank and file vote to end the strike...
...picture opens. Carrie -played with consummate craft by Sissy Spacek, who was so fine in Badlands-could not be a more hopeless case. She is the child of a religious fanatic (Piper Laurie) who is sexually repressed to the point of madness. Carrie does not even know about menstruation and when, in her high school locker room, she gets her period for the first time, she becomes hysterical. Turning to the other girls for help, she is instead turned upon and abused in what may be the most terrifying demonstration of the adolescent capacity for mass cruelty ever filmed...
...STEPHANIE'S lovers, a hopeless alcoholic, confides to her that he has a secret desire to write a novel. This revelation prompts a rare moment of humorous insight from Gray's heroine...
...earlier this year, but not before the story had grabbed considerable attention in the national press. The most interesting fact the news stories revealed was not that Karen Ann Quinlan quit going to church, or that Joseph and Julia Quinlan are parents only by adoption, or even that many "hopeless" comatose patients have recovered; these things only detract from the significance of the Quinlan case. The important discovery was that respirators had been unplugged earlier all over the country--sometimes without even the permission of the families involved. Some doctors say it happens every...
...such hopeless cases, does the intentional disconnecting of a respirator constitute a murder? Colen says no, because the respirator is not prolonging the life of the patient, it is merely postponing an inevitable death. As simple as that. Don't talk about "quality of life" in the Quinlan situation, he says, because her life has no quality. She will never even reach the level of self-awareness of a mentally retarded child. Don't talk about million-to-one chances, because, in Colen's words, "Medicine doesn't deal with a million-to-one. It deals with what is best...