Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upon the bleak, angry use of explicit sex; in Shampoo, the expansion of the conventional romantic triangle into a romantic pentagon; and in Nashville, the seamless fusion of stylization and a documentary feel. She jumps up and down at these new affects, and never settles down to put her surgeon's tools to work. Sparked by a childlike fascination for film history and change, she tugs at our sleeves and blurts out "look at that, do you realize what's happening?" But sadly, like a zealous child, she underestimates the capacity of yesterday's radical departures to become today...
...child will see some 13,000 violent deaths during those formative years. With the increase in the number of violent crimes committed by juveniles becoming a national nightmare, concern about the relationship of TV violence to teen-age violence has sparked a plethora of studies. In 1972, the Surgeon General issued a $1.8 million five-volume report concluding that yes, indeed, TV carnage can cause aggressive behavior in some children. Since then, the National Institute of Mental Health, all three networks and various foundations have sponsored their own studies. The Rand Corp., given a $150,000 grant to organize...
Though thousands of middle-aged victims of heart disease have undergone such operations in the past decade, this was no ordinary patient. He was William A. Nolen, M.D., author of the 1970 bestseller The Making of a Surgeon, a startlingly candid behind-the-scenes account of his surgical apprenticeship at New York's Bellevue Hospital, and other popular books. Not one to miss an opportunity to publish, the articulate Litchfield, Minn., surgeon has now made the most of his unfamiliar position at the other end of the scalpel. In a new book titled Surgeon Under the Knife (Coward, McCann...
When more than a dozen apparently unexplainable deaths occurred among patients at tiny Riverdell Hospital in suburban Oradell, N.J., in 1965-66, a young doctor finally decided to act on his suspicions. Opening the chief surgeon's locker, he found 18 mostly empty vials of curare-a highly lethal drug sometimes used in small doses to relax muscles during surgery. No charges were ever brought against the surgeon -who explained he was merely using the relaxant for experiments on dogs...
Last week, after a series of articles by New York Times Reporter M.A. Farber on the nearly forgotten case (TIME, March 22), a grand jury indicted the surgeon. Initially identified only as "Dr. X" in Farber's accounts, Argentine-born Dr. Mario E. Jascalevich, 48, was charged with murdering five of the patients. Their bodies, recently exhumed, all contained traces of curare...