Word: roemer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bubba") Henry and State Senator Edgar ("Sonny") Mouton and give them top jobs in his administration in exchange for their support. The outraged legislators claimed that Lambert made the offer, not Treen, and they challenged Lambert to join them in taking a lie detector test. Then Charles ("Buddy") Roemer III, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress last fall, charged that Lambert had also proposed to pick up his campaign debts in return for an endorsement. Lambert said that it was a "damned...
MOST DISTINGUISHED DOCUMENTARY. Michael Roemer's Dying (PBS). A sensitive exploration of the emotions of three people confronting the ultimate crisis, it is that least common of television phenomena-a program that continues to reverberate in the mind...
...says Producer-Director Michael Roemer in summary of the stern message of Dying, his searing 97-minute television documentary made for Boston's WGBH, to be aired this Thursday on PBS channels across the country. It is an intimate portrait of how three cancer patients who know they are going to die contend with this reality to the very end. Dying is a camera probe into forbidden reaches of our fears...
...subject of death has, until recently, remained one of the last unmentionables. Now there are signs of a more realistic approach to the inevitable. Colleges offer courses in thanatology, and churches present seminars on coping with death. Few viewers, however, will quite be prepared for the overpowering impact of Roemer's immensely humane yet all too chilling treatment of the subject. The show begins with an interview that is not one of the case histories...
...poncho, Sandy nursed her by Mark's bedside. This homey act gave her husband a peaceful sense of the continuity of life, she explains. For the viewer, this serene prologue to the dying patients awakens a sense that lives and relationships are as important as death. Says Roemer: "I felt a good way to ease into the fears was to start with something that was already over." But there are few easy moments after that...