Word: ical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work nights for six months get a $1,200 bonus plus an extra week of vacation. At Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, nurses on the night shift can take a leased car in lieu of a pay differential. In apartment-tight New York City, Beth Israel Med ical Center has offered subsidized hous ing. Says Rose Hauer, director of nursing services: "If I had more apartments, I'd have no nurse vacancy problems." Park way General Hospital in North Miami Beach pays a $300 bounty to employees for each nurse they help recruit - if the nurse stays...
...transformation from brat to warrior is a shaky bridge for any actor to walk. Audiences have always found it hard to sympathize with his duplicity in leading on a lovable rogue like Falstaff, and the actor who plays him must make his deviousness seem right as well as log ical. To preserve his life and his position he must be more clever than other men: he is the son of a regicide and knows that the throne he will inherit has been made slippery by blood. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," cries his father. David Gwillim adroitly...
...combination of utter vividness, precision of detail and fantasticated, rhythm ical design breathes from nearly all the miniatures, but especially from the work of the Safavid court artist Sultan-Muham mad, for whom this show is in effect a retrospective. In one image of a legendary Persian hero, Rustam Sleeping While Rakhsh Fights the Lion, there is a dazzling play between abstraction and observation...