Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real rubble in Waco, an NBC crew was recording an enactment for a made-for-TV movie airing next month. In Ohio, meanwhile, another standoff, quite real, came to a less violent end as the more than 400 prisoners who took over a state penitentiary surrendered. The death toll was still brutal: a guard and nine inmates. (See cover stories beginning on page...
...performative" emotions. The immediate plot describes how the barbaric loner Frank (Robert Feldstein) forces himself on the civilized society of the idealic couple, Ernest (David Shafer) and Jane (Wynne D. Love). With incessant, nonsensical conversation on topics ranging from urban renewal projects to his illustrious career as a toll both operator, Frank intrudes upon Ernest and Jane's weekly picnic at the beach...
...backlash has taken a toll. In the past year, a proposed federal research initiative that would have included biological studies has been assailed, and a scheduled conference on genetics and crime has been canceled. A session on heredity and violence at February's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science turned into a politically correct critique of the research; no defenders of such studies showed up on the panel. "One is basically under attack in this field," observes one federal researcher, who like many is increasingly hesitant to talk about his work publicly...
...dedicated sports journalists, but reality takes its toll. So when we goof, as we did with the crew coverage last week, know that it had nothing to do with gender bias and everything to do with being human. The Radcliffe crew is right that our Sunday crew article was slanted towards the men's races. We regret...
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOOD TERMINAL ILLness, but people who know Alzheimer's disease consider it one of the worst. Its slow and agonizing course leads inexorably from memory lapses to personality changes to utter loss of intellectual functions to certain death. The emotional toll on the estimated 4 million Americans who suffer from the disease and on their families is incalculable; the bills for nursing care are enormous...