Word: isabel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meet six characters in search of a murder: Tony, a flamboyantly gay barber; Barbara, a tough-doll beautician; Eddie, a shady dealer in antiques; the patrician Mrs. Shubert; and two other salon customers who are soon revealed as detectives. They're staking out the building's upstairs tenant, Isabel Czerny, a reclusive concert pianist. Sure enough, the unseen Isabel is murdered. O.K.-whodunit...
Bach Society Orchestra. Will perform Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with violinist Melinda Hakim '97, flutist Isabel Gill '97 and keyboardist Mary Farbood '97; the East Coast premiere of John Harbison's 1991 Oboe Concerto, with oboist Daniel P. Kim '97; and Mahler's Kindertotenlider with mezzo-soprano Mary Westbrook-Geha. $7/$5 for students.Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m. Tickets are available atthe Holyoke Center Ticket Office and the SandersTheatre Box Office...
...Munigi cholera camp in northeastern Zaire, the very ground is infected by the dying. Nurse Isabel Subiros, wearing jeans and pink rubber gloves, steps carefully around the contaminated diarrhea and vomit and bloody needles. She accidentally pricked herself this morning. She tries not to think about it, or anything that is happening around her. "It is best just to work," she says...
...bends over a teenage girl dressed only in a red knit sweater, a shrapnel wound on the back of her leg reeking of gangrene. Her name is Faida, her eyes are empty, waterless like the rest of her body, and Isabel can not find a vein to insert the intravenous tube that could save her. "The blood vessels close down as they are dying," she explains, failing to find a vein on one arm and trying the other. The girl resists: "Leave me alone." Isabel withdraws. "This one wants to die," she says, and the wound will kill her anyway...
...soothe the excruciating pain and eradicate the lesions that occur in severe cases of the infection. The only alternative treatment, corticosteroids, does not work as quickly or as completely. "The pain was so great that I couldn't walk," says Irani, 24, a former patient at the Santa Isabel leper colony. "I almost died. Thalidomide was my salvation...