Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff begins to treat him more like a "usual patient" and less like a celebrity. He will have to come to grips psychologically with being permanently tied to an air-pump system, in much the way that paraplegics learn to accept their wheelchairs. To date, Schroeder's good humor has been strained only once, when he took part in a series of experiments last Monday. Doctors first injected him with Isuprel, Neo-Synephrine and Nitroprusside, three drugs frequently used to treat shock or high blood pressure. The chemicals are known to affect both the heart and the flow...
...that it takes on real weight, however, only that it seems to be buckling under the pull of some nonspecific gravity. A woman who can work up a fail-safe two-line recipe for romantic bliss ("Make him some catfish/ Fry it up in bed") has humor to spare and no further need to flash her credentials for high seriousness. The same notion remains: if the next record comes faster, it ought to be even better...
DESPITE these difficulties, though, Akalaitis presents a compelling version of this great play. It is funny, full of an ironic humor that makes its profundity palatable and insidiously convincing. It is frightening, describing a world that has run out of bicycles, sweet-plums, coffins, pain-killer, honor, time, and God. After a futile attempt at prayer, Hamm screams, "Bastard! He doesn't exist." It shows mankind, having walked to the edge of the plank, hesitate before the leap that threatens oblivion or promises a new beginning...
Bartender: Not bad for heavy humor, but I hear Teddy came back with a letter to the editor that said, "When I get down to my fighting weight, which I plan to do, I would hope the Globe's policy of fairness will entitle me to the same expansive coverage...
Doctors at Louisville's Humana Hospital Audubon were astounded by Schroeder's rapid progress and by his good humor, which, noted Dr. Allan Lansing, medical director of the hospital's heart institute, "is more important in his recovery than most medicines...