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Kevorkian, though, is not like other doctors. A retired pathologist from Royal Oak, Mich., he has long been a pugnacious maverick, recommending, among other things, a scheme whereby doctors would render death-row patients unconscious so their living bodies could be used for medical experiments. In recent years Kevorkian has fought hard for a patient's right to commit suicide and a doctor's right to help. Last fall he invented the easily replicable suicide machine using $45 worth of hardware and tried to advertise it in a local medical journal. When the editors refused, he peddled the story...
...infinitely funny, in Robbins' variation on his performance as the dopey, fireballing pitcher in Bull Durham. Thought is for him a face-scrunching agony. Ideas -- rare occurrences -- render his countenance beatifically beamish. But since life is mostly utterly unpredictable to him, he is atwitch with dangerously unmediated impulses. Williams is his opposite, a man racing to keep up with a runaway brain, yet striving, hopelessly, to project an air of normality...
...Bledsoe argues that these specialties do not render obsolete Room 13, which prides itself on being a nonspecialty group. She says that often people prefer talking with a general counseling service because they may initially be reluctant to label their problem...
...invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice is a one-woman show. But Smith gets splendid support from Margaret Tyzack in the thankless, stereotypical role of her clumping comrade Lotte Schoen and obliquely from Britain's Prince Charles, whose marginally less dotty tirades against contemporary architecture render Lettice's eccentricities almost trendy...
...unlike them," said Reiner Oschmann, deputy editor of the once mighty party daily, Neues Deutschland. "He did not preach water and drink wine, as they did." While Modrow built an admirably efficient electronics industry in Dresden, top party leaders feared his popularity and resented his failure to render the obsequious flattery that they had come to expect from underlings...