Word: quinlans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most celebrated case concerning life-maintaining systems, that of Karen Anne Quinlan (TIME, April 12), is not analogous. She is able to breathe without a mechanical respirator, and her brain still shows electrical activity...
Touch of Evil is Orson Welles's darkest, most disturbing film. Shot in Venice, California after years of exile from Hollywood studios, the film stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, an obese, autocratic cop who frames his victims to ensure that the guilty do not escape punishment. Quinlan represents Welles's moral vision at its most complex and contradictory: on the one hand, he is a repulsive figure--brutal, racist, eats candy bars the way most people smoke cigarettes--and employs illegal methods; but on the other, he cares deeply about people, unlike his self-righteous and priggish antagonist, the Mexican...
...foot in a strange place last week. Her mouth. After a sellout tour through Europe with her song-and-dance revue, MacLaine was booked into the Palace Theater for her first Broadway stage appearance since The Pajama Game 22 years ago. How nice to be back in "the Karen Quinlan of cities," said Shirley, comparing the life expectancy of New York with that of the young New Jersey woman, whose tragic yearlong coma stirred a lingering right-to-life court battle. MacLaine's audience, including Jackie Onassis and Congresswoman Bella Abzug, sat in silence. After the show Miss MacLaine...
...bans, it nonetheless was used last week to create the most important precedent to date in the complicated area of a person's right to live and die. It came in a unanimous ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the much-discussed case of Karen Anne Quinlan (TIME, Nov. 3). After apparently downing some pills and drinks a year ago, Karen, 22, had fallen into a vegetative coma, and her father asked for court authority to remove a life-supporting respirator so that she could die "with grace and dignity." Her mother believed that God had kept...
...right to privacy grows as the degree of bodily invasion increases and the prognosis dims." The chief justice added that if a patient cannot exercise his or her rights, then a guardian-usually the next of kin-may do so. The court thus entrusted her father, Joseph Quinlan, with Karen's right to die, and he may turn to other doctors or hospitals if Karen's present medical caretakers continue to refuse to disconnect the respirator...