Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene portraying the murder of Short Eyes receives some careless treatment; Young stands guilty here for demonstrating precious little restraint in depicting the grisly slashing of Short Eyes's neck. And the film concludes by simply reversing the direction taken by the camera at the outset of the movie, this time following a young Puerto Rican out of the prison amidst jeers from his abandoned lovers in the penitentiary. Crafted for a theater's stage, Short Eyes as a movie remains a gut-wrenching work to watch, and despite its flaws, the promise shown by Pinero's script should make...
Drabble's sardonic treatment of the British attitude toward money calls to mind a conversation earlier this year in North House with two economists, an American and a Briton. A question was put forth: How can a country with a skilled industrial work force and a scientific establishment that regularly produces Nobel prize winners, a country that invented the Industrial Revolution, be such an economic weakling in the modern world? The American replied by noting that bright young men do not go into business in Great Britain. Commerce is considered vulgar, his British colleague concurred. The ablest young people...
...vaccine, made from the sugar coating of the bacteria, is particularly important because it will be useful against new strains of pneumonia recently found that are resistant to the usual antibiotic treatment...
...principal concerns. It said flatly that both the U.S. and Panama would "defend the canal against any threat" to its neutrality or to "the peaceful transit of vessels through the canal." In addition, the statement affirmed that U.S. and Panamanian warships not only would use the canal "with expedited treatment" at all times but would also be allowed to "go to the head of the line" of vessels awaiting passage in cases of "need or emergency...
...Lithium treatment, Tosteson says, is most often used to aid manic depressives. He says that in many manic depressives the red cell membrane has no system for regulating the transport of lithium. Tosteson hopes to examine the chromosomes of manic depressive individuals to see if there is a correlation between the presence of genes for the mental disorder and the presence of genes for the red cell membrane disorder...