Word: sutherland
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...Tolerable" was the word John McCarthy carefully chose to describe living conditions during his most recent months as a hostage in Lebanon. He assured the families of three of the men who had been held with him -- Americans Terry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland and fellow Briton Terry Waite -- that when he last saw them, "they were in good health and good spirits...
After guards took away the chess set he made from tinfoil, Anderson asked Sutherland to teach him French. Sutherland also kept them occupied with lectures on agriculture and his Volvo car. One day at the end of 1987, overcome by frustration, Anderson banged his head on the wall until his scalp bled. But later, when a French hostage, Marcel Fontaine, said he hoped not to die a prisoner, Anderson replied, "I don't want to die anywhere." Like Anderson, Sutherland experienced days of despair. Several times he tried, but failed, to suffocate himself with plastic bags...
That is not likely to mollify the public, which craves absolute safety, not just in medicine but in all facets of life. "People have to think of the alternatives," says Dr. David Sutherland, a transplant surgeon at the University of Minnesota. "If your heart is failing and you're given one month to live without a heart transplant, are you going to say, 'I'm not going to have it because there's a 1-in-10,000 chance I'll get AIDS'? I doubt it." One positive side effect of AIDS is that it has forced major improvements...
...York Daily News, Sullivan had a reporter's instinct for what was hot, and he outhustled rivals to showcase new talent, notably Elvis Presley and the Beatles. And not just in pop. Sullivan proudly treated his audiences to classical excellence in the personae of opera diva Joan Sutherland and ballet stars Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. He encouraged black artists at a time when TV offered them few opportunities. Ella Fitzgerald and Pearl Bailey were all but regulars; Motown stars -- from Smokey Robinson to the winsome little Jackson Five -- got ample display...
...Roberts is well-cast as Mannus. With her defined and elegant features, she is almost immediately appealing on screen because she is so beautiful to watch. But her beautiful features are also expressive, and Roberts can act. Like Sutherland, she has a talent for simultaneous characterization; as Mannus, she is at once mechanical and vulnerable...