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This winter's flu onslaught has added another talking point to the health-care debate: the declining state of emergency services. Certainly the doctors are good, and the equipment gets better every year; in fact, the number of trauma centers that can deal with serious injuries is on the rise. But the ability to deliver service is being compromised. Medicare funds have been slashed as the number of uninsured patients has skyrocketed. A lack of beds and skilled nurses hasn't helped matters. In the past decade the total number of EDs in the U.S. has dropped from about...
Blood. Breath. Violence, trauma, struggle, survival. These are the heady subjects of Susan Rothenberg's latest body of paintings, on display now at the MFA in Boston. The exhibit, which contains several paintings fresh from the artist's studio, befits an artist who once declared that Monet's paintings were essentially decorative because they packed no psychological punch. Rothenberg's own work, while often stunningly beautiful, is never merely decorative: the sum impact of the punch delivered by her last decade of work is enough to send you reeling...
...production. The play becomes a marker for Manuela's life, for after the performance, Esteban is run over in an attempt to secure an autograph from Human Rojo (Marisa Paredes), who plays Blanche DuBois. While true to her reputation, Manuela's agony appears the genuine product of intense emotional trauma; unfortunately, the overdone orchestration of camera technique ruins the power of Esteban's death. Almodvar shows Esteban's limp body through various mirrors and glass, and fades into true dimensions through moving the camera first back and then rapidly forward. The scene becomes reminiscent of a trip to the Hall...
...experienced five or more negative childhood situations--such as abuse, divorce of parents or living with a drunken family member--were more likely to have taken up smoking. They were about five times more likely to have started smoking by age 14 than those with no childhood trauma. That's another good reason to identify and help troubled kids...
...reality-based love song, even though the soft beats and harmony make the melody very pretty. But it's "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine" that truly establishes a connection with the listener, depicting as it does a housewife in an abusive relationship dealing with the emotional and physical trauma of trying to raise her kids while barely surviving. Indeed, "Affirmation" lives up to its name: each of the songs in the album has something to teach and affirm about life itself...