Word: novels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What's powerful about the novel is what's unsaid, but it was an era that was ripe with sexuality and flirtation and full of innuendo. Everything...
...Well, once [Patricia Rozema] adapted the novel to have Henry be a viable match for Fanny Price, there was a dilemma after the Portsmouth scene [in that the relationship could still happen]. The sex scene seals the impossibility of their relationship--it's totally shocking...
...always facing the problem of how to convey the essence of the story--it's almost impossible to be completely faithful and retain the spirit of the story. But something about the film strikes at the essence of the novel...
...epidemic will change. New HIV infections will occur predominantly in the underclass, with rates 10 times as high in minority groups. Nevertheless, American patients will live quality lives for decades, thanks to advances in medical research. Dozens of powerful and well-tolerated AIDS drugs will be developed, as will novel means to restore the immune system...
...more faith in its member doctors' diagnoses. The health plan, which insures more than 14 million Americans, spent $100 million in the past year scrutinizing doctors' recommended treatments, and, according to plan officials, ended up approving 99 percent of them. To trim these costs, executives have turned to a novel idea: Let the doctors decide what treatments are medically necessary, and let it go at that. "It's just extraordinary," Robert Blendon, a Harvard University professor of health policy, told The Dallas Morning News. "Here they are saying that there are other ways to save money without rationing care...