Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begins as a typical, if pathetic, Mother's Day visit. Carrying a bunch of daffodils, a woman enters an old folks' home to visit her aged mum. After some small talk, their conversation abruptly shifts to suicide. "How many have you brought?" asks the mother. "Fifteen...
...disease. The three homebodies had had close contact with the family dog, which suffered a severe brain disease in 1973. In ten other families, the mother and a child had the disease; in two, the father and a child; in 16, siblings were affected. Another coincidence involved a woman and her nephew, who lived together and both developed MS in the same year...
...woman, admitted to the hospital with severe burns covering 95% of her body, asks a doctor if she is going to die. The physician replies carefully that although he cannot predict the future, survival in cases like hers is unprecedented. Does the woman want ordinary medical care or maximum-effort treatment, involving the use of life-prolonging machines? She chooses the ordinary care, consisting basically of painkillers and intravenous fluids, and dies quietly within hours...
...eyes transfixed by a small, battery-powered TV. Once, in a state of great excitement, he called CBS Executive Perry Lafferty into his office to watch a scene in a soap opera. "It was a routine hospital bed scene, with the man standing beside the bed of the woman he loves," remembers Lafferty. "But I looked over at Freddie, and tears were rolling down his cheeks...
Aside from tales for the kids, Silverman rarely reads anything but scripts; when he does, his tastes run to popular bestsellers like James Clavell's Shogun. Though he now has the use of a company limo, he and Cathy, an attractive woman with short, dark hair, live in most ways like Middle Americans. Their apartment is furnished like a suburban split-level, and when they buy paintings, they try them out first on the walls, just to make sure that they like the colors. Freddie is vague about the artists' names...