Word: lungful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew it would be fine," recalls Patty. And so it has been. Aside from an operation at four months to remove a third arm that projected awkwardly between their heads, the girls have not needed surgery. They have been hospitalized briefly three times: twice for pneumonia in Britty's lung and once for a kidney infection...
...bring a jury into tobacco's inner sanctum. "Wigand can personalize the story and give...firsthand evidence...as to how the industry was conducting its business and what its motivations were," says Scott Ballin of the Coalition on Smoking OR Health, which includes the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association. "The efforts that they are going through to discredit him are directly proportional to the damage they know his testimony can do," says Richard Scruggs, the Mississippi lawyer who is shepherding Wigand through the courts...
...cases was not by spending all of Reynolds' money but by making that other son of a bitch spend all his." Liggett Group, for instance, spent an estimated $75 million fighting the Cipollone case in New Jersey; though the jury awarded the husband of Rose Cipollone, who died of lung cancer, $400,000 in damages, that verdict was overturned on appeal. Tobacco experts insist they are undaunted by the slew of new lawsuits, and they point out that Jeffrey Wigand has yet to be cross-examined. In fact, five law firms are representing B&W in its breach-of-contract...
However, it is this same impassioned acting which ultimately leads to the musical's prominent flaw. The surplus of melodramatic overacting gets tiresome. Every character who appears on the stage for more than three minutes is immediately assigned a scene in which he can showcase his abundant lung capacity in a fit of uncontrollable anger, or a shuddering, tearful breakdown. And each emotional tidal wave produces a sage, if somewhat cliched, statement of advice that could be applied to Jacob Zulu, South Africa and the world...
DIED. AUDREY MEADOWS, 71, actress; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. She began her career as a soprano, playing Carnegie Hall and Broadway. And then, in 1952, she became Alice on The Honeymooners. Meadows and co-star Jackie Gleason (who died in 1987) were a study in the metaphysics of comedy, a working-class yin and yang who made that sitcom a peak experience of American pop culture. Gleason as bus driver Ralph Kramden was huge, bombastic, extravagant with feeling. Meadows as his wife was slight, cool, drolly down-to-earth. She imbued Alice with a prefeminist feistiness that rendered...