Word: marooned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Color: Maroon...
...there is a new and far less traumatic option for some disk patients. Known as percutaneous automated diskectomy, it is an outpatient procedure performed under local anesthesia through a tiny (2 mm long) incision in the back. Developed by Radiologist Gary Onik and Neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon of Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, the operation breezed through its clinical trials, and has been performed on some 15,000 patients around the country -- at approximately one-third the cost of conventional surgery...
...this elaborate new blend of animation and live action co-produced by Disney and Steven Spielberg, the "cartoon before the movie" is how the movie begins. As you settle into your seat, the Maroon cartoon studio logo flares onto the screen, announcing Who Framed Roger Rabbit, starring Baby Herman and Roger Rabbit. For a few minutes of inventive mayhem, the infant crawls toward every lethal kitchen appliance while his harried hare of a baby-sitter works frantically to keep things from blowing up. It's the comedy of anticipated disaster -- the nightmare anxiety that propelled so many of Avery...
...Anyone who cares about [the scandal] at all is really disgusted," said Larry Peskin, news editor of The Chicago Maroon, the university's undergraduate newspaper...
...Captain Jane Grim was one of the biggest reasons why the Maroon had problems creating any scoring opportunities. With 12 minutes left in the second half, Springfield threatened to score, but Grim cleared the ball across midfield to end the threat...