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Love Medicine (1984) and The Beet Queen (1986) introduced Louise Erdrich as a writer with a bold talent and exotic demographics. Both novels drew deeply from her background in North Dakota, where her German-born father and Chippewa mother worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Erdrich's use of history, legend and experience was sophisticated. She is a 1976 graduate of Dartmouth, where her husband Michael Dorris, who is part Modoc, is a professor in the college's department of Native American studies. She has a master's degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins, a pocketful of literary...
...there is one thing that Cicely Saunders knows about, it is coping. This much-honored 70-year-old physician, who eight years ago was made a Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth, has devoted much of her life to caring for the dying, and in doing so has changed the way of death for millions of people. Dame Cicely is England's modern-day Florence Nightingale. She has made herself death's interlocutor, bargaining away the pain and isolation in return for peace and acceptance. She has done this as much through the strength of a very forthright...
Earlier this month, she welcomed the Queen to St. Christopher's to help celebrate the hospice's 21 years as the mother ship of a worldwide movement that has become known simply as "hospice." Increasingly people are choosing the death with dignity pioneered at St. Christopher's, either in inpatient facilities or, more often, at home through hospice-administered visiting programs. Hospice care is available in developing countries, such as India and Thailand, and in the Communist world (Poland has opened five hospices). But no country has embraced the concept as widely as the U.S., which has 1,679 hospice...
...referred to then as "American Negroes." I interviewed prominent business leaders whose Carnival "krewes" -- the organizations whose floats parade through the streets during the Carnival season on the way to elaborate balls -- were at the center of their lives. If lengthy and solemn discussions about which debutante should be queen of Rex or Comus are carried out every year by the business leaders of a city -- not the wives of the business leaders, the business leaders -- could it be an American city...
...Jonathan Demme' s nifty Mafia farce, Married to the Mob, Michelle Pfeiffer certifies her rep as dream queen of '80s comedy...