Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...satirist's typical distance from his creations and finishing besotted with them. In Therapy (Viking; 321 pages; $22.95) he describes a classic case of postmodern depression. Laurence ("Tubby") Passmore is 58, securely married, the chief writer on a hit TV sitcom. But he quickly finds he has a trick knee, a fed-up wife and a bad threat...
...famous Spanish shrine of Santiago de Compostela. In the 40 intervening years, she has married and had children, including a beloved son who was recently killed while doing relief work in Angola. Maureen is still a simple, good person. Through her, Tubby recovers his essential decency--plus a healthy knee and sexual potency. By subtle shifts in tone, Lodge has grafted a hackneyed case of worldly malaise to material straight out of an uplifting homily. What a conjuring act! Greater love for his characters hath no writer...
Getting ATF agents to open up about their lives and work required unusual tact and tenacity. "There was a great fear of retaliation by the ATF management," he says. After two months of travel, scores of interviews and a stack of documents piled knee high in his office, he delivered a penetrating look at an agency at war not with the militias but with itself...
Other teaching hospitals are following similar strategies, with some variations. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, saw the managed-care wave coming and hatched a particularly wide array of responses. For one thing, it standardized purchasing of such supplies as knee braces and rods for broken bones. It orders in bulk and demands discounts. Meanwhile, Mayo has a thriving side business in newsletters, books and cd-roms...
...Englishman and move to London). "I wish they would take the name Pocahontas off that movie," Shirley "Little Dove" Custalow McGowan, a storyteller of the Powhatan nation and for a time a Disney consultant on the picture, told the Washington Post. On the other side, Russell Means, the Wounded Knee insurgent who provided the voice of Chief Powhatan, said, "It is the finest film ever done in Hollywood on the Native American experience...