Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this means that it is simply harder to be a doctor now than it was a generation ago: harder to master the art and the craft, harder to practice, harder to savor the natural pleasures of healing. Patients loudly long for the days of chummy family doctors and personalized care, when Marcus Welby would make everyone well. But it turns out that the distress is mutual, the frustration shared. Many patients may be surprised to learn that the doctors are suffering too. Listen to them tell...
Like Harry and Sally, the movie is hardworking, spot on; it winepresses its conversation into epigrams. No surprise here. Reiner found wayward comedy in such genres as the rock documentary (This Is Spinal Tap) and the historical romance (The Princess Bride). Crystal, the improv master who is Reiner's closest friend -- "We finish each other's sentences," Crystal says, "and he finishes my lunch" -- meets the challenge of making a compulsive Lothario not just likable but impishly seductive. And Ephron, a helpful Heloise of emotional heartburn, perks the script with clever answers to modern problems. How long should...
...they are in town for a meeting. When they called, I had nine short hours to undo the damage I had done. I was going to reserve the two days before they came home to clean up everything--the coffee mug-stained tabletop, the disordered CD collection, the dirty master bathroom (no other bathroom...
Harvard has indicated that it may file an amendment to its master plan to accommodate the building purchase and administration officials have said they want to set up a mechanism with the community to avoid a repeat of this summer's dispute...
...Everyone was hailing [Harvard's master plan] as a model plan--a process working the way it's supposed to work," says Marilyn Lyng O'Connell, Harvard's co-director for community relations. "I think in the end history will still record it that...