Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 70 miles east of Pittsburgh, Laurel Highlands is a prison and a nursing home rolled into one for people like Bedarka. For the sickest of the sick, there is the 85-bed long-term-care unit, staffed by 48 nurses around the clock. In a dayroom, half a dozen elderly men gaze at an ancient TV, mesmerized by Judge Judy. Amputees pushing manually operated wheelchairs queue up at the medication counter, where a cheery nurse dispenses pills for diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Nearby, a delusional man rants that State Road 31 is a barrier protecting him from...
...mega-serioso drama, the main one is Eyes Wide Shut, and that has Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman making weird whoopee, so it shouldn't be a chore to sit through. Most of the other pictures are minds wide shut. Their only aim is to make you laugh yourself sick. As Eddie Murphy, playing a star actor in the inside-Hollywood comedy Bowfinger, says, "We're tryin' to make a movie here, not a film...
What the researchers found, after adjusting for age and other risk factors, was a direct link between how much the men smoked and how sick they got. Patients who smoked fewer than five cigars a day had a 34% greater risk of throat and oral cancers and a 57% greater risk of lung cancer than nonsmokers. Men who smoked five or more cigars a day had a 620% greater risk of throat and oral cancers and a 220% greater risk of lung cancer than nonsmokers. If they also drank more than three alcoholic drinks a day, their cancer risk shot...
Diana was a sacrificial symbol in several ways. First she became the patron saint of victims, the sick, the discriminated against, the homeless. Then, partly through her real suffering at the hands of a rigidly formal family trained to play rigidly formal public roles, and partly through her shrewd manipulation of the press, Diana herself projected a compelling image of victimhood. Women in unhappy marriages identified with her; so did outsiders of one kind or another, ethnic, sexual or social. Like many religious idols, she was openly abused and ridiculed, in her case by the same press that stoked...
History is written by the victors, but what of those who called in sick that day? Or those who opted not to play? What of the individual who performed one small act that set in motion a great, grand tumult of actions that changed history...