Word: fatalism
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...said to have had a hypnotic effect on his followers, but none have said they were in fact clinically hypnotized when the murders occurred. The Manson tribe used hallucinogenic drugs frequently, but there has been no claim so far that they were tripping the fatal night. Mrs. Kasabian will testify, Bugliosi said, that Manson instructed her to get a knife, a change of clothes and her driver's license and accompany the other defendants to the Tate home in Benedict Canyon. There, the prosecution charges, five people were murdered only because they were unlucky enough...
...home. True, four out of five older people have a chronic condition. "But chronic diseases must be redefined," says Duke's Dr. Eisdorfer. "I've seen too many depressed people leaving their doctor's office saying, 'My God, I've got an incurable disease.' Chronic illness gets confused with fatal illness. Life itself is fatal, of course, but as far as most chronic illnesses go, we simply don't know what they do to advance death. The role of the doctor has to change. Now that infectious diseases are on their way out, the doctor must stop thinking about cures...
...love Kaufman and Hart, and I love the thirties. But the Harpo production of You Can't Take It With You endows its characters with the fatal fruit of self-knowledge: it's a classic example of "camping." Instead of giving us the original and allowing the dislocation in time and space to provide the boffs, we are presented with a modern, hip conception of the thirties. The ingenue is not just "lovely, fresh, and young," as Messrs. K. and H. described her: Kent Wilson's Alice is a veritable Breck poster girl, a walking Palmolive ad, a cutie...
...head. Then they examine the chest for a broken rib that may have pierced a lung, and finally they look at the limbs. The heart and the "great vessels" adjoining it are usually not examined until much later-if at all. Yet in many cases there is a potentially fatal injury to the aorta, which, if promptly detected, can be corrected by today's advanced surgery...
Aortic Rupture. Greendyke's research confirmed this type of injury in one of every six persons killed in auto accidents. In most cases there were other injuries that would also have proved fatal. But in some, Greendyke is certain, early detection of the aortic rupture would have made life-saving surgery possible...