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...sounds like the most morbid of questions to ask of a patient: "Why aren't you dead yet -- or even sick?" Looking for the answers may prove to be one of the most productive avenues of research in the battle against AIDS. By shifting their focus to the healthy, many researchers believe they can make dramatic improvements in the treatment of everyone who is infected with HIV -- whether ailing or not. Just as important, their work could channel the scattershot search for a vaccine into new and more promising directions. "Early in the epidemic we thought everyone who got infected...
This film could easily have degenerated into boring moralism or vacuous exploitation. But a wry sense of humor links these two strains without letting either predominate. Key ideas lie cloaked in outrageous jokes both slapstick and morbid. As a scene involving lobsters and mayonnaise proves, a well-chosen coating can make even the thorniest issues more palatable...
...only television in the house stood at the foot of her bed. If you wanted to watch Ed Sullivan, and I did, you also had to watch grandmother, commercials and morphine injections coming at regular intervals. It was a situation that, to a child, seemed neither odd nor morbid," notes playwright Scott McPherson in the program for Marvin's Room. The bluntness in McPherson's art may well be that of a child but it is also one of a brilliant craftsman...
Marvin's Room has all the makings for an odd and morbid play. Bessie, who takes care of her bedridden father Marvin and her disabled Aunt Ruth, finds out she herself is seriously ill. She reluctantly accepts the help of her long-estranged sister Lee and her two "problem" children, an older boy currently in a mental institution, and a younger one who would rather read 24 hours a day than deal with the people around...
This negative stereotyping leads Blacks to plant "seeds of self doubt and an almost morbid sense of self-consciousness," said West, who is Director of Afro-American Studies at Princeton University...