Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bhopal, meanwhile, the scene at Hamidia Hospital remained tense. When Ashok Bhaba, a local politician, accused two senior doctors of discharging a patient prematurely, a scuffle broke out, and 900 young doctors went on a 21-hour strike in support of their two superiors. At almost the same time, Mother Teresa visited the hospital, and the city, to bring spiritual comfort. As news of the factory's resumption began to spread, even patients who could hardly walk checked out of the hospital and joined the mass exodus. Wards that had been overflowing just one week earlier were left almost...
...each individual person, like the little naked girl I photographed sitting on a rock: she was not strong enough to stand, not strong enough even to eat. I still see her face." Burnett was also struck by individual images of compassion. "There were so many loving moments, a mother with her baby, a father protecting two children. We tend to think all human feelings die under such circumstances, but I felt a little less hopeless when I saw that it wasn...
Rajiv Gandhi, who succeeded his mother Indira as Prime Minister after her assassination in October, broke off his campaigning for the Dec. 24 national elections to visit Bhopal. Expressing his shock and sorrow, Gandhi announced a $4 million relief fund. In addition, Arjun Singh, chief minister of Madhya Pradesh state, of which Bhopal is the capital, promised compensation of about $500 for every family that had suffered a death and $100 for every family that had a member hospitalized. President Reagan sent Gandhi a note expressing the grief shared by him and the American people...
...manly glamour once he assumes his mission. Like most of the other cast members, MacLachlan delivers his speeches as incantations from an old, old testament. The actors seem hypnotized by the spell Lynch has woven around them-especially the lustrous Francesca Annis, as Paul's mother, who whispers her lines with the urgency of erotic revelation. In those moments when Annis is onscreen, Dune finds the emotional center that has eluded it in its parade of rococo decor and austere special effects. She reminds us of what movies can achieve when they have a heart as well...
Another story tourists hear is that no structural changes, even removing a brick, man be made on Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, because of a stipulation in the donation. But they do not hear the time-honored--but untrue--story that Widener's mother, who donated the building, insisted that all students take a swim test before graduation because her so drowned aboard the Titanic. Sanks contend that the swim test was introduced with the building of the river Houses...