Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...directed by Wes Craven, was a supple, evocative parable of vulnerability and triumph. Nancy Thompson (the splendid Heather Langenkamp) is isolated in adolescence. Her divorced parents are drunk or too distant; her friends are too weak to save themselves or her. So as in Psycho and Halloween, a young woman must act alone against evil. No man can defeat this creature with his strength; she must face him with her brains and purity. "These pictures are boot camps for the psyche," Craven says. "The only choice is to act or die. They are about kids' accepting the reins of adulthood...
...doctors and nurses at the south London hospice it had been a wrenching weekend. Twelve patients had died between Friday and Sunday nights, and by Monday morning death's wide swath had left the staff physically and emotionally exhausted. It was time for a tall, somewhat stout, white-haired woman to provide the reassurance of her presence: standing in a stairwell, in the path of grief-bruised nurses and doctors, greeting each with a jovial smile and concerned questions: "How was your weekend?" "Are you exhausted?" "Are you coping...
...would such a woman, an Oxford graduate and the daughter of a wealthy London real estate agent, choose to devote her life to death? One answer is her religion. Converted from atheism as a gawky, somewhat gauche, young woman, she went through a period of evangelistic fervor, during which she was a Billy Graham counselor, before she finally settled into the Anglican church. Her faith created much apprehension among doctors when St. Christopher's first opened. "We suspected she wanted to produce deathbed conversions," says Consulting Psychiatrist Colin Murray Parkes. "How wrong we were." Insists Dame Cicely: "There...
...methods, many still in the experimental stage, are myriad and mind boggling. Tiny biodegradable capsules are under development that can be embedded in a woman's thigh or arm and will automatically dispense contraceptive hormones for a year. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are experimenting with dissolvable plastic wafers that are implanted in the brain and slowly release an antitumor drug for cancer victims. The day is not far off when most diabetics will be able to give themselves insulin with a nasal spray. In California doctors are working on drug-loaded bubbles of fat that bind themselves...
...Wanna-Be appeared uncomfortable with his rock-star-like reception. After denouncing liberal judges -- "We want a court, not a bunch of left-wing politicians in robes" -- Bork revealed that his newfound celebrity had robbed him of his privacy in public. He noted that at a supermarket recently a woman came up to him, tugged on his sleeve and said, "Mr. Surgeon General, I believe in everything that you're doing...