Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York State, which trains 14% of the nation's doctors, the debate over how doctors are trained has exploded into action. Troubled by a rash of malpractice cases that, he says, "seem to have been related to fatigue and lack of supervision," Health Commissioner David Axelrod appointed a blue- ribbon committee of New York doctors to investigate. Axelrod had been particularly upset by the case of Libby Zion, an 18-year-old Manhattanite who died while undergoing treatment for a high fever at New York Hospital in 1984; a grand jury attributed her death to neglectful treatment by tired...
...rings and the parallel bars. Obviously, they are athletes. No first-time observer of this Olympics for the mentally handicapped would wonder why they are competing. At the gym's other end, however, the scene takes the first-timer farther from the familiar, with a floor exercise called "rhythmic ribbons." One by one, young women, most of them shaped by the rough hand of Down's syndrome and all of limited physical ability, walk or run slowly over a patterned course, swirling a long ribbon tied to the end of a stick. Is that all there...
...filled pastry by the Cannoli Factory, and most headed for the booth of Paron Chocolatier to see the first-prize winner among new products (awarded by the show's sponsor, the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade). A visit to Paron meant risking sugar shock because the blue-ribbon concoction turned out to be Eve's Revenge, an obscene and hefty perversion consisting of a Washington State apple thickly coated with caramel and chocolate and encrustations of coconut or nuts...
...because his version of American landscape (bare birches, patches of snow, brown stubble, rocks and iced-up puddles, all under a white sky) looks so like Siberia. To gauge how the roots of his imagination go, one need only compare his painting of the nude Helga with a black ribbon round her neck, face averted, floating in a soup of dark shadow, with the work on which it is based: Manet's Olympia. There, one has all the contrast between what is deep and what is genteel, between brazen, ironic intelligence and mere sensibility, between the harsh confrontational skills...
...third varsity also finished first--by more than three seconds over Penn--while the freshmen picked up a second-place finish, giving the Crimson a ribbon of each color on the afternoon...