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...devastating,” she rasped. She said that when she visited UHS, she was told that “lots and lots” of cases had been seen. From the other end of campus, Mather resident Anant A. Thaker ’06, who said he was bedridden with illness for most of last week, told a similar story. “They gave the impression they’ve had quite a few flu cases in the past few weeks,” said Thaker, who said he went to UHS after the first few days...
...Unfortunately, though, as one goes through the book, a distinct malodor of misogyny begins to build. All the main characters are men, most of who have horrid relationships with shrewish wives or girlfriends. This theme reaches its nadir in the depressing story titled "Bedridden," about a woman we never see and who never speaks, hidden under the bed covers since she has somehow been "re-shaped to please men" as a sex slave. The twist of the story - that men kill each other to become her "master" - doesn't make up for such a nasty premise. To be fair...
...book is not high art, but it stirs a pang of recognition in any man who has rocked a sleepless infant or grasped a bedridden father's hand--as well as a tingly intuition of the special nature of those particular players. When the young Joseph muses that "when You settled into my arms it felt as if I were holding heaven," the Christian reader is meant to realize that he actually...
...bedridden hero of Dennis Potter's superb 1986 BBC mini-series shares the name (minus an e) of a top private eye and applies his own daft deductive powers to solving the mystery of his own sad life. Michael Gambon is laceratingly magnificent...
...kindnesses shown to Schiavo during her 15 bedridden years of care, the greatest was allowing her to die naturally. Wilbur F. Poppe Denton, Texas...