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...opera, so predictable are the plot contrivances--adultery, pregnancy, illness, missing money--and so cartoonishly are the characters drawn. Mother Joe (Irma P. Hall) is warm, loving, doomed. One daughter, Maxine (Vivica A. Fox), is heart-smart and, since she's a mother, a font of family wisdom. Another, Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), a successful lawyer who has subsidized most of the family's extravagances, is, of course, the villain of the piece. Poor Williams: her pretty mouth is forever prissed in disapproval at her more sympathetic sibs...
Shortly after 5 a.m., Teri Majewski marches purposefully into Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. Strongly built and fit looking, the 34-year-old mother of two young children seems too healthy to be in a hospital. But she checks in at the day-surgery department and is summoned to an examining room, from which she emerges a few minutes later in a baggy blue hospital gown and the inevitable plastic bracelet. Suddenly, she looks vulnerable. This morning Majewski is scheduled to undergo a bone-marrow harvest, in which doctors will remove about a quart...
...family member with leukemia. They underwent initial blood tests, known as HLA typing, for a series of four genetically determined traits that, along with two more traits tested at a second level, must closely match those of the patient for a transplant to be accepted by the body. Neither Teri Majewski nor her husband matched, but they let the American Bone Marrow Donor Registry keep their records...
...City, is currently under federal investigation for mail fraud, tax evasion and fertility-drug smuggling, as well as the thefts. Professing his innocence, he told TIME, "I think there were people in charge of setting me up who falsified documents and forged consent forms." Yet his former chief biologist, Teri Ord, testified recently that Asch not only knew of the misappropriations, but ordered them...
Despite the setting, the Thomasons seem less interested in political satire than in replicating Designing Women. Suzanne's staff is another kaffeeklatsch of man-abused females: a spacy receptionist left by her husband (Valerie Mahaffey); a boozy press secretary fired by the Washington Post (Teri Garr); and a hard-boiled chief aide (Patricia Heaton) embittered because the Congressman whe worked for ("the man I served...under for 14 years") is now in prison and his wife is getting all the conjugal visits...