Word: sickroom
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...masterful charade for the benefit of Congress and the country, becoming in the process what some called the "28th and a half" President. She skillfully arranged an early version of a photo op for a congressional delegation, propping up her inert, bedridden husband with pillows in a darkened sickroom. It was all to convince the public that the President was still in charge. Although she acted out of love, she damaged both the country and Wilson's legacy. "Woodrow Wilson was first my beloved husband whose life I was trying to save," she said with pride of what she called...
...disease begins to run rampant through the community, gay men begin to realize that it will not provide a glamorous, Dark Victory-style degeneration. Any illness can be ugly, and so can the response to it. Amid a sickroom's strained bonhomie, Willy (Campbell Scott) tiptoes away to wash off the light kiss of an infected friend. But others find the option of heroic devotion. David, now nursemaid to the ailing Sean, covers up when Sean's boss calls, and diapers the incontinent patient. Because David is also standing a potential deathwatch on his future, his caring grace is spectacular...
...since the baby." Sally Field was flushed with more than her victory as Best Actress for Norma Rae. Field, who had scarcely eaten for three days because of pre-Oscar nerves, sagged into bed next day with flu and a 102° fever. So many bouquets multiplied in her sickroom that she reported weakly: "It looks like a florist shop. Or a morgue...
...difficult beginnings than Munch. They might have crushed his talent; instead they gave it a permanent irritability. His family was sunk in a kind 'of permanent neurasthenia, the petit-bourgeois provincial twilight known to every reader of Strindberg or Ibsen. He was, almost literally, raised in the family sickroom, in a dreadful atmosphere of whispers, enforced silences, vomit, snot and the cold stink of carbolic acid...
...blow account of how Chiang Ch'ing, the wife of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, murdered her ailing husband last year, offering the latest twist in the continuing campaign against Madame Mao. Three of the Chairman's physicians charged that when the ailing Mao was sleeping in his sickroom, Chiang Ch'ing would yell at him, brandishing documents under his nose. Then she made her first attempt with an improbable blunt instrument. This was a high-wattage lamp that she cunningly placed on Mao's bedside table. Though "in dread of heat," he survived. Then Chiang...