Word: played
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horse embody that deep measure of humanity under the pressure of grace? If Tolstoy wrote the story, the answer is yes. And Tolstoy did write the tale that inspired the Russian play that has now been adapted to English with remarkable aesthetic fidelity for Manhattan's Chelsea Theater Center...
...viewers as Ethel Mertz, Lucille Ball's best friend and neighbor, on the long running and even longer rerunning show I Love Lucy; of cancer; in Belvedere, Calif. A star in Broadway musicals, the Kansas-born blond was in semiretirement when recruited by Ball and Desi Arnaz to play Ethel-the role she played from 1951 to 1956. "After a while," she said, "you're not sure who you are-Ethel Mertz or Vivian Vance." When cast as Lucy's sidekick on the 1960s The Lucy Show, Vance insisted that her character be called Vivian...
...year), a stronger voice in patient care and, above all, freedom from what they consider the dominating attitude of doctors. Says Connie Curran, associate dean of nursing at the University of San Francisco: "Nurses are refusing to do the cleaning up after physicians; they're refusing to play the old male-female game...
These practitioners act as independent health-care consultants. Accepting "clients" who may be ill or just troubled, they play a role that sometimes seems to be a cross between Marcus Welby and Ann Landers. Insisting that "medicine is concerned with disease, nursing with health," they preach the gospel of preventive medicine-or "health promotion," as they call it. Says M. Lucille Kinlein, who runs a thriving practice in Hyattsville, Md.: "We give people an opportunity to think in a different concept, namely to think wellness...
...Francisco's Grimes Poznikov, who plays trumpet from inside a 6-ft. canvas box and bills himself as the "automatic human jukebox," rates cities by numbers: 14 for Seattle, 22 for New York, and so on. The numbers are his estimate of how many minutes a street musician can perform before getting moved on for soliciting or creating a disturbance. Cops, like rain, are a prime occupational hazard. Boston Licenses its performers for $10. Other cities give the police wide discretion to act on complaints about noise, or to play music critic...