Word: warded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ward Games...
LIFE IN THE PARAPLEGIC WARD HASN'T changed much since Marlon Brando and friends first showed us around in The Men 42 years ago. The guys are still alternately bitter and brave, and they ultimately learn to bond with one another. Sex remains for them, of course, a scary and tragic issue. But if THE WATERDANCE has nothing new to say about its subject, at least it speaks in an engaging voice: soft, literate, modest. Probably because Neal Jimenez, its writer (and co-director with Michael Steinberg), is writing autobiographically, he is less concerned with melodramatic invention than...
...disturbed by what he was seeing. Soon after he joined the staff of Methodist Medical Center in early 1991, he was treating four patients with kidney cancers, an unusually large number for one small area, and a cluster of other people who appeared to have weakened ability to ward off infections. Reid suspected that something in the local environment was attacking the residents' immune systems...
...leaves behind a single memorable token: a pair of gold-encrusted shoes. Newlyweds once routinely tied a pair of old brogues behind their coach or car for good luck. In the Middle Ages the well-to-do wore poulaines, shoes with pointy, turned-up toes that were thought to ward off witches...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug * Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Melinda J. McAdams, M.M. Merwin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...