Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temperament. Beneath it, however, is a violin virtuoso's rage at being felled by multiple sclerosis. The role, played on Broadway by Bancroft, now extracts one of Julie Andrews' strongest performances. Fighting the disease and its accompanying despair, stoking her own infidelity and her husband's, displaying the terminal patient's luxury of being both noble and bitter, Andrews transforms Tom Kempinski's case history into a metaphor for middle age. Stephanie could be any careerist facing a mid-life crisis of confidence -- Is she at her peak or past it? -- or the cripple any woman feels herself...
...dense fog hung over Kilkenny's main street as a cold but patient crowd waited an hour for their candidate. When Fianna Fail Leader Charles Haughey, 61, finally appeared, neither damp nor gloom could muffle the cheers. Jumping from his car and springing into his campaign bus, the gray-haired Haughey apologized for his tardiness, then pledged, "It'll take more than fog to stop Fianna Fail this time around...
...benefits of having all one's characters lunatics is that virtually any parenthetical comment may be expanded into a foolishly profound discourse. Richard Grusin, playing a sleazy motel desk clerk, launches into an elegy on stains and their makers, while Thomas Derrah portrays a straightjacketed mental patient and Middle American T.V. set simultaneously with equal conviction and vigor...
...food and water for the sick, which is a moral requirement for everyone? The New Jersey bishops' brief in the Jobes case insists that medical treatments are wholly different from food and fluids, which "are basic to human life." Nutrition, say the bishops, "must always be provided to a patient." But as the CHA experts saw it, neither the Vatican nor the U.S. bishops' conference takes such an absolute stand...
...number zero, for example, the despondent numeral visits a psychoanalyst. "I'm just a nothing," he sobs. Zero added to any other number, he explains, adds nothing; when placed to the right of a decimal point, it even makes a number smaller. The supportive shrink reminds his patient of zero's important role: "What about multiplication? Zero times any number is zero. Think of the power you wield over all the other numbers...