Word: particulars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month under the Shah. Unable to find work, they eke out an existence on a $200 to $300 monthly dole from the government. They also congregate in the streets, where their demonstrations for jobs have triggered violent reactions from the Orthodox Muslims and in particular the "komitehs," the local administrative and security arms of Ayatullah Khomeini. As one of the unemployed put it: "We have fights with komiteh members almost every night...
...staged the action scenes vividly, with swirling movement, loud speakers, sirens and flashing lights and kept the quiet moments simple and suit ably spacious in their loneliness. The cast - including Richard Fredricks as Lev, Jake Gardner as Yuri and Curtis Rayam as Olympion - sang with conviction. Two in particular matched the aplomb of Caldwell's conducting: Arlene Saunders, in lustrous voice as Nadia, and Cynthia Clarey, warmly sympathetic as a nurse who serves as a peacemaker...
...North Carolina, and a third on behalf of the White House. All three measures cover mainly institutional records, not those kept by doctors in their private offices. Also, they would continue to allow release of information for such worthy scientific purposes as inquiries into the effectiveness of a particular drug on the course of a disease. But they would prohibit the kind of blanket, open-ended authorizations that are contained in the any-and-all forms. What is more, the patient, who is now practically the only one kept in the dark about his medical records, would finally be allowed...
Because the antipsychotics affect different patients in different ways, doctors can never be sure just how effective a particular agent or dosage will be; they simply prescribe by trial and error. The medication may not work at all or, if the dose is too high, it may produce annoying, even dangerous, side effects...
...saloon singer named Tony Clifton; a heartsick yearner after a lost love from the seventh grade; a ringmaster for a kind of rainy-afternoon kiddie show, full of cartoons and silly songs. In all those guises, Andy Kaufman is a little like a stand-up Pirandello. But what adds particular piquancy to his lavish charades is Kaufman's adamant refusal ever to drop his own mask...