Word: tubercular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sleep in Moscow's metro tunnels and solicit change outside its new temples of affluence. That is still less than half the estimated homeless population of a city of comparable size, such as New York City. But places like Kursky station have become overrun by these panhandlers. Some are tubercular. Others are covered with skin ulcers and body sores. The existence of most is sufficient to provoke the spleen of passersby. "Disorder, dirt and a total lack of care for others," says Vera Alexeyev, a housewife who has lived in the city for more than 10 years, "is what strikes...
...more conventional movie figures who fare best in this lugubrious context. Dennis Quaid is Doc Holliday, the tubercular gunman-gambler, who gallantly and sardonically confronts his mortality, and Joanna Going plays Josie, the smart, spunky romantic who is Earp's last great passion. These are familiar, forthright characters, and the actors energize the film by playing them with headlong confidence...
...palace, tubercular coral sponge amazed...
...infection among high-risk groups, including children, hospital patients and the homeless. Because people with weakened immune systems are particularly vulnerable to TB, the doctors also advise that anyone who lives in close + contact with a TB patient should also be screened for AIDS-spawning HIV. For those tubercular patients who refuse treatment, thereby needlessly endangering their fellow citizens, the health experts recommend mandatory quarantine as a last resort...
...union movement seemed unstoppable in the 1930s, but by the time Geoghegan came along, it was developing, as he aptly puts it, "a nice, rosy, tubercular glow." He wonders about his own political commitment and why he is obsessed with labor and its ghosts. It may even be rootless, he thinks, to still be for something like "solidarity" or "community" during the Reagan era. In one moving passage, he describes the scene at a Wisconsin plant closing that marked the end for the Autoworkers local. Standing outside the plant, not knowing what to do, the members decide to scream...