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Gere plays Stony De Coco, a 19-year-old who still lives with his suffocating parents in the antiseptic, concrete high-rises of The Bronx. Should Stony continue the family tradition and become a construction worker? Or should he follow his desires and become a white-collar counselor to infirm children? A simple dilemma, but Bloodbrothers takes forever to resolve it. There is so much clutter in this movie that it is often difficult to find Stony amidst the underbrush...
...knows how many cases there are or have been. Health authorities usually rely on school absenteeism as their best numerical clue, but they were foiled because this season's outbreak occurred during the Christmas holidays. One indisputable index is the number of deaths, mostly among the aged and infirm, resulting from the pneumonia that so often follows flu. In New York City alone the pneumonia deaths during three weeks rose from...
...largest-selling Christmas record of all time, Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," was originally written--in Yiddish--as a lullaby for infirm children...
...from city to airport. Once arrived, passengers must be prepared to wait too long and walk too far in overcrowded terminals. Airports are heavily supported by concessions, from eating facilities to shops, and these are at best inordinately priced, at worst incredibly bad. Worst served are the elderly, the infirm and families with small children...
Most mental and attitudinal changes seen in old people are not biological effects of aging. "They are the results of role playing... They [the aging] are supposed to be physically and intellectually infirm." Example: many old people are uncertain, meandering drivers because they are expected to be, just as many women come to adopt the male notion of the dithering woman driver. "Older, fit drivers are the least dangerous on the road," writes Comfort. "By 70-plus you have experience, and the accident-prone fraction of the population is dead or disqualified...