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Then there's the revival's one major innovation: two songs, and a good chunk of the dialogue in several scenes, are done in Spanish. This, the creators tell us, is an attempt to acknowledge the show's multicultural theme more forcefully and to make the show more "realistic." It's a worthy sentiment and less of a distraction than I'd feared; enough English is tossed in to keep the Anglo customers from drifting off in confusion, and I, for one, do not miss the English lyrics to "I Feel Pretty." Still, it seems like a gimmick: "realism...
...items 1 through 8, but don't do 5.' And you've just given them four or five directions. The child with working-memory problems has dropped three of them, and so he's like, 'Page 23 - what I am supposed to do?' " Similarly, a parent might tell a kid, "Take my keys, go to the car, get your sister's toy, and before you go, take the trash with you." The ADHD kid will get to the car without remembering what else to do. Their instructions must be broken down carefully because their working memory is weak...
...Tell me about your company. We call what we do "biotrauma remediation." We're providing the remedy for not only the biological hazard but also the trauma that stems from that hazard. Our service is twofold: we do the cleanups, but we also care about the people and try to provide the most sensitive service that we possibly could...
...tell me how they trained you guys. One thing they did was send us to the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office - that's the county that Atlanta, Ga., belongs to - and they had us view an autopsy. That got us acclimated to the gore that we see. Fulton County also has a decomp room where they store bodies that have been decomposing for any length of time. So we went to that room and got to smell the stench of death. That was like the initial kick in the butt. Then after that, we had a month of classroom...
...that to gauge our reactions, and I think most everybody dealt with it pretty well. That being said, one thing we do back home at Biotrauma, we've identified the fact that stress has a cumulative effect on the body. We seem to be strong, or at least we tell ourselves that [laughs], and we haven't had any problems, but that's not to say something couldn't happen down the line. So we keep a real close eye on our employees...