Word: karens
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...competent patient. In practice, someone else must try to replicate the decision the patient would make were he able to speak for himself. This notion of "substituted judgment" was established judicially for an incompetent patient by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the 1976 landmark case of Karen Ann Quinlan, who had lapsed into an irreversible coma the year before. Pressed by her parents, the court ruled that her respirator could be removed if the Quinlans, her doctors and a hospital review committee agreed...
...other four actors, most of whom play more than one role, all give strong lively performances with especially fine timing and interaction. Cherry Jones is a charming incarnation of evil as Mother: Tony Shalhoub (Father) and Karen MacDonald (several roles) appear appropriately flimsy creatures, attracting attention without abandoning their feeble personalities. Marianne Owen (Nanny/Principal) is the best comedian, but she tends to be even more overpowering than her characters are intended to be, which distracts the audience from the rest of the show...
...felt it was more important for me to do some work on my thesis," noted Captain Karen Gray who qualified in the pentathlon...
...last year) to the amusingly gruff song-speech of Jeremy Geidt. And while the dancing is not going to put Tommy Tune out of work, there are some fine numbers, including an amusingly effeminate soft-shoe by Harry S. Murphy ("Dear Old Syracuse"), a terrific trio by Susan Larson, Karen MacDonald, and Marianne Owen ("Sing For Your Supper"), and a hilariously frantic improvisation by Thomas Derrah at the close...
...council members are: Gilberto A. Pimentel '84, Adams; William J. Jason '83 Currier; Luis C. Silva '84, David R. Traum '84, Dunster; John F. Coburn '84, Eliot; Gregory B. Williams '85, North; Karen M. Park '84, Quincy; and Thomas A. Schuler '84, South...