Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underemployed writer, short, sad-eyed and Jewish, with an attitude problem ("Know what I resent? Just about everything!") and a rather complacent identity crisis ("I very badly want to be someone else without going to the trouble of changing myself). Her boyfriend Marty (Chip Zien) is a kidney specialist who looks like a Muppet rabbi and calls Janie "Monkey." Her father (Stephen Pearlman) is a nice guy with all the charisma of Muzak in a minor key; her mother (Betty Comden) is a danceaholic who can't let go of her baby. Janie knows how to make her mother...
...film director whose works of macabre-to-macho violence included the Bette Davis-Joan Crawford shocker What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), the Burt Reynolds gridiron prison melodrama The Longest Yard (1974), and The Dirty Dozen (1967), which at the time sparked complaints about its relentless brutality; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. Scion of a prominent New England family and a Rockefeller cousin, Aldrich rejected a banking career to start as a $25-a-week production clerk at RKO studios...
...which ranks behind only heart disease and cancer as a cause of death in the U.S. Some of those in the class have begun to experience the terrible complications associated with the condition. Jim, a diabetic for 20 of his 27 years, has begun to lose his eyesight and kidney function and has early signs of heart disease. Bob, 35, has had so much laser surgery to preserve his failing eyesight that he worries about losing his peripheral vision...
...testing the amount of sugar in their urine, using a simple chemical test. Unfortunately, this test is unreliable, and Type 1 diabetics generally suffer from abnormally high and often wildly fluctuating levels of glucose in their bodies. It is suspected that many of the complications of the disease-blindness, kidney failure, narrowing of the arteries and gangrene leading to amputation of limbs-are caused by the buildup of sugar...
...been very sick. The cops beat me brutally at a rally called by the democratic youth which had been authorized by Pinochet. You cannot imagine how they hit me, what's more, they shot me in the back which hurt me very badly, causing a blood clot in my kidney. It is very painful on top of all the other internal complications produced by the blows, from which I have not yet recovered...