Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of the medical experts held out any hope that Karen could ever recover. Dr. Julius Korein, a neurologist at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, said it most dramatically when he likened Karen to a child without a brain. Karen, he made clear, is not in a "locked-in" syndrome-i.e., a state in which she sees, hears or understands but cannot communicate. She is, said Korein, a vegetable. His description was so disturbing that Mrs. Quinlan, who had maintained her composure throughout the proceedings, slipped quietly from the room...
Doctors defend such decisions as a part of the practice of medicine. "What is the point," asks one Manhattan physician, "of restarting a terminal cancer patient's stopped heart so that he can survive in agony for a few more weeks?" But almost all doctors are decidedly uneasy about terminating treatment once it has been started, especially if doing so will mean the certain death of a patient. Many doctors, after all, are taught to regard death as an enemy and to do all they can to defeat it-or at least to keep...
...Like Bessie Smith, Hopkins came up in the South, with a mind bent on singing. And like the 1920s blues singer, who was an imposing 200-pounder, Hopkins, 50, is a handsome ample woman. Rustling her voluminous, diaphanous blue caftan, she shimmies across the stage of Manhattan's Ambassador Theater in a rhythmic roll that more than matches her vocal size. Me and Bessie, Hopkins' nearly one-woman musical revue (she is backed up by two dancers), recalls the history of Bessie Smith, from tent singer to Empress of the Blues...
...accounts in banks soared by $1.7 billion, equal to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $294.6 billion. This indicates that the Federal Reserve Board is now fueling the recovery with enough money to keep it going, and that interest rates may-temporarily at least-decline a bit. Last week Manhattan's First National City Bank announced that it will lower its prime rate from 8% to 7¾%; about a dozen other major banks promptly followed...
Poirot: deceased. Maigret: retired. Martin Beck, Commander Gideon, Inspector West: gone, all gone with the recent deaths of their creators. Of the old breed, only Nero Wolfe is still doing business at the same old stand, his orchidaceous town house in Manhattan, backed and fronted as always by the ineffable Archie Goodwin. Like his corpulent hero, Author Rex Stout, 89, continues to confound the actuarial tables-and his followers. In this latest outing, Stout ups the stakes of the game he plays with readers. Three-quarters of the way through, Narrator Archie realizes the identity of the criminal and concedes...