Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conquistadors' story is also presented without judgment. Herzog, the enfant terrible of the German film industry, is widely-known for his existentialist treatment of his subjects, and Aguirre is no different. Herzog's view of the Spaniards' abuse of the Indians they found in Latin America is offered through juxtaposition of images--four chained Indians struggle under the burden of a gaily-decorated sedan chair while its occupant looks on impassively; the monk impassively kills two Indians who fail to understand his efforts to proseletize. But the filmmaker's views are rarely more articulated than this, as if he accepts...
...Government's growing role in paying for medical treatment poses another problem. To process Medicare claims, two insurance companies were given access to the bare minimum of information in the Social Security Administration's records; the information-for instance, the person's birth date and the amount of the bill-was needed to verify claims. The same computer contains highly personal facts, including family income, expenditures and assets, that are supposed to be kept private. Though Social Security officials assured the Linowes commission that safeguards had been designed to keep the insurers from obtaining this information...
...within 5 min. Amenities: dismal, though waiting lounges are spacious and airy. One coffee shop in each terminal. Cafeterias offer prewrapped food on Styrofoam dishes. Only one sitdown restaurant, attractive Host International. Two bars each terminal, open 7:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. Shopping facilities: minimal. One barbershop. Emergency treatment center attended by paramedics (24 hr.), but 13 hospitals are within 5 min. Overall: uninspired but adequate...
...vote, the Supreme Court last week rejected five separate arguments by Nixon that the law violated his constitutional rights and, unfairly, applied only to him. Senior Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. declared that Nixon was "a legitimate class of one," a proper target for special treatment by Congress because of the danger that Nixon might destroy evidence...
Loose Change started out as a promising idea: a kind of updating of The Group, a Mary McCarthy treatment of three women who attended Berkeley in the early '60s, then went caroming through the rest of the manic decade trying to understand both themselves and the cultural eruptions all around them -an impossibility. "In that time that decade which belonged to the young," writes Davidson, "we had thought life was free and would never run out. We were certain we belonged to a generation that was special. We did not need or care about history because we had sprung...