Word: scalpels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand, one can read it as a very American icon of progress; it is a fervent, secular celebration of objective scientific knowledge, with the realism of paint serving that of science. Dr. Gross, light shining from his high forehead and glittering on his bloody hand and scalpel, is a pragmatic hero, and his skill is set before us as part of his American nature...
...figure will be up to 19.2%. This group generally needs about four times as much medical care as other sectors of the population. As America's medical demands continue to increase, both privately owned and nonprofit hospitals will be looking to professional managers who can wield a scalpel with the skill of a top surgeon when it comes to paring costs...
...youthful Winston in Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry and of the aged Willie in Maugham. But they are edged with steel. Morgan, 50, feels that either love or hate is a dangerous conceit. Says he: "You have to be clinical, like a coroner dissecting a corpse." His scalpel reveals a Churchill swollen with hubris and a stingy Maugham pathologically concealing his homosexuality from the public. Morgan, like his colleagues, perceives his subjects in novelistic terms: "What I am looking for in a subject is a tragic life with many setbacks and recoveries, and with a transforming experience...
Even Gertrude Lawrence, one of his greatest friends and favorite acting partners during the '20s and '30s, receives a small jab from the Coward scalpel. When she vacillates about accepting a part, he directs her husband "to tell Gertie to mind her manners and that if she wants another play from me she can fish for it." Yet when she dies a year or so later, he breaks down: "With all her overactings and silliness I have never known her to do a mean or an unkind thing. I am terribly, terribly unhappy to think that I shall...
That is just what the physically active woman is doing, while maintaining a full-time successful career. Dr. Frances Conley, 42, is a Palo Alto, Calif., brain surgeon who trades in her scalpel for a javelin once a week. Beth Edens, 31, is usually on the move as a sales representative for a Houston printing company but still finds time to keep in shape with aerobic-exercise classes. "It's mental health," she says. "If it helps me physically, fine. But most of all it's a release...