Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With three days left in exam period, 224 students have petitioned for "sick-outs," according to statistics released by Stillman Infirmary yesterday. 530 students got exemptions from exams last spring...
...pretty much day and night. Rose talks in an easy country twang that belies his Princeton (B.A. '69) and Baylor (M.D. '73) education. After serving his residency in an urban Oakland, Calif., hospital, he came to Feather Falls and found himself delivering goats, prescribing for sick dogs and sewing up deer attacked by dogs. All that, of course, was in addition to morning rounds and surgery in the Marysville hospital, afternoon office hours, evening community-health meetings and late-night calls from the pregnant or the lonely...
...much except twist a little in the air. Martin expresses his ambivalent disgust, but since he helped write the screenplay, and since real kittens, no doubt much confused, must have been used to film the sequence, the moviegoer feels somewhat ambivalent himself. If the scene is not actually sick, it is at least somewhat indisposed...
...tell them that their constant use of the word terminal is turning my stomach. The one who has been doing all the talking turns to me and stares. He has black half-moons under his eyes that make him look like a high school football player. "It makes me sick too," he says, "I was just on for 14 hours straight." I look closer and realize his face is as puffy as a marshmallow; I assume that the machine has just punched him out. Either that or someone couldn't wait to get on his terminal...
...violently destructive message that The Who and other rock groups deliver leaves me little surprised that they attract a mob that will trample human beings to death to gain better seats. Of greater concern is a respected newsmagazine's adulation of this sick phenomenon...