Word: organ
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...including international travelers, drug users and workers in the food-service, health-care or day-care industry. The test for hepatitis-C virus has been added for all women 13 and older and for women at particularly high risk (women who take intravenous drugs and those who received an organ transplant or a blood transfusion before...
...director, Alan Parker, worked with Laura Jones to write the screenplay, and the film is very faithful to the book--too faithful, perhaps. Like a complex organ hymn being plinked out on an electric keyboard, the film plays the same basic melody as the memoir but fails to bring out the nuances of McCourt's writing, while these nuances are precisely what made Angela's Ashes a great work rather than a mere string of anecdotes...
Kolata's medical detective story is packed with new information and astonishments. She explains, for example, that it is now believed the epidemic killed mainly strong adults between ages 20 and 40 because healthy immune systems overreacted. Both invader and defender flooded the lungs, the only organ in the body with the enzyme needed to replicate the virus...
...about My Mother opens with dramatic cinematic technique as the camera in close focus follows an IV line. The sense of determinism continues to operate as an amorphous force in every subsequent scene. The next shot is a scene in an impeccably furnished apartment in Madrid. Manuela, an organ-transplant nurse played by Cecilia Roth (a luminary of the foreign film industry, with an uncanny ability to evoke tears) sits watching All About Eve with her son, Esteban (Eloy Azorin). Esteban is turning 17 the next day, and his eyes seem bright with literary genius and joie d'vivre...
...thought this was weird. Then I read on. The naked slasher had sidekicks, two clothed men with sticks. What's more, the Guardian in London said the man was stopped by an off-duty cop-who used a piece of organ pipe to fight him off. The Scotsman says a bank clerk also fought with a pole-mounted crucifix...