Word: infantalizes
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...frightening. In the intensive-care nursery at nearby Wyler Children's Hospital, a part of the University of Chicago, an unnamed 2-1b. boy, born in the sixth month of pregnancy, is sustained with the help of something called a radiant warmer bed, plus a phototherapy unit, an infant ventilator, three volumetric infusion pumps, a transcutaneous oxygen monitor and a cardiac-respiratory monitor...
...adding too much water. The child may look healthy, but the dietary imbalance can cause severe growth retardation and infections that could ultimately lead to death. Meara tends to be quietly angry with the shortsightedness of a society that will readily spend $50,000 to save a premature infant's life while cutting back programs that might keep mother and child healthy in the first place...
...seven, the image was one of precocious vitality. Whatever their infant outlook on life, whether smashing class clichés or already living comfortably within them--like the upper-class twit who says, "I like my newspaper because I've got shares in it"--these children seemed raring to help shape the empire's future. To watch the original documentary (which accompanied 28 Up in its New York City premiere) is to be charmed into suspending awareness of the depressing trajectory of British life since then. The succeeding films follow that arc; they might be called 14 Perpendicular, 21 Tilt...
...Medicine A consequence of the cocaine craze: women who give birth to infant addicts. Interferon helps prevent the common cold...
...fables are filtered through a peasant ruggedness; their images are as clear as a Giotto fresco; the actors find precision in the volcanic gestures of Italian opera. In one scene, Batà sits alone in the town square to confess the origin of his ailment, and a flashback shows the infant Batà in a field at night, his huge eyes transfixed by the harlot moon. No minimalist torpor for the Tavianis--every frame is over the top and on the money...