Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YORK--Mark David Chapman, a 25-year-old former mental patient, was arraigned yesterday in Manhattan on second-degree murder charges for the killing of Beatle John Lennon...
Seated on the stage of Vanderbilt's Underwood Auditorium, simultaneously slicked up and rumpled in his Sunday best, he could pass for a stranger who got lost on his way to the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville's other landmark. His mouth has the patient downturn of one who has endured flood and drought, and can survive this occasion too. When he speaks to the overflow audience, resolutely ignoring the mike, his parched hills-and-hollows drawl has the rasp of red dust in the throat on a July afternoon...
...there is more. Care for the afflicted? Quadriplegics may some day use spoken commands to order robot servants to do their bidding. Other designers are working on a robot that could gently lift up a bedridden patient, while a nurse changes his sheets, and tuck him back into bed. M.I.T. Computer Scientist Marvin Minsky visualizes a day, about 20 or 25 years from now, when a surgeon will be able to slip on a pair of special gloves connected by remote control to a pair of mechanical hands that can perform surgery for him in a hospital hundreds of miles...
...William Schmidt, 35, of San Jose, Calif., is a successful dentist. If that description conjures up nervous waits in a bland, Muzak-filled office and a white-coated figure poking fingers, drills or needles into the patient's mouth, with possibly a palliative lollipop or pat on the back afterward, forget it. Dr. Schmidt practices his profession in a red cape and bright blue tights. He calls himself "Plaque Invader." The cape outfit is only one of twelve costumes he dons to amuse young patients. At Christmas he may be dressed as Santa Claus, and around July...
Adults have their own treats at Schmidt's office: chances to win record albums, dinner at a local restaurant or a turkey. He offers a choice of wines in the waiting room. Patients can even try a relaxing soak in the office hot tub. Says Dr. Schmidt: "We've kept our name circulating in the community because of what we are doing. The more the name is mentioned in the community, the more likely we are to pick up a patient...