Word: internment
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...very interesting lighting, and, of course, the large technical skills of the dancers. The choreography covered a wide range of themes. The introspective piece, "Inescape," used shadows on a backdrop as a literal projection of the inner self. It was a good distance in mood from the last dance, "Intern," where loads of huge black balloons were thrown onto the stage by unseen hands, then played with by the dancers, and eventually dropped off the stage where they were tossed around (and taken home) by the audience...
...lobby operates on a yearly budget of $50,000, provided by the student unions at each of the university's nine campuses. It is headed by three recent U.C. graduates (Kevin Bacon, Linda Bond, Tom DeLapp) assisted by nine student interns. The directors make $600 a month and serve for up to two years. Each intern works for ten weeks, has his rent in Sacramento paid, and receives academic credit for his service...
...They want her to die. They want her to die now." An overworked intern admits Mary Berquam, a little girl with leukemia, to the pediatrics ward of a university hospital to die. But the resident, McMillan, overrules her father's demand to let her die in peace. "I had no time for goofy parents," recalls the intern. Enter the cold, stern hematology chief, Prader. He persuades the Ber-quams to have Mary treated for the sake of scientific research. Mary's condition seems to improve...
...about penicillin!" one doctor responds. "Talking to parents or patients was not our thing," the intern muses. "We were not very good with death." A nurse agrees: "You're all so smug and self-centered and unapproachable...
...being heroic?" he asks. "Don't you think enough is ever enough?" Says the resident: "There is no reason not to use everything we have," and he challenges Prader to "turn off the respirator" if he does not agree. Prader replies, "We don't kill patients." The intern pulls the plug and Mary dies...