Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Doctors perform abortion procedures on women who are not pregnant...
...Some clinics use an assembly-line system in which doctors perform operations within three minutes (a safe abortion usually takes about 15), do not administer anesthetics or do not wait for them to take effect, and race each other to see who can perform the most operations in a day. According to the investigators, Dr. Ming K. Hah of the Chicago Loop Mediclinic and Michigan Avenue Medical Center may provide the fastest and most painful abortions in Chicago. He makes a pencil mark on the leg of his scrub suit for each abortion and tallies them...
...immediacy that is the novel's strongest suit. Seen from the inside, the characters are simply beleaguered children trying to cope and, ultimately, failing. Outsiders find their degeneration criminal; the book shows the inadequacy of such a judgment. Aberrant acts fascinate because of their strangeness, and those who perform them are rarely able to make their reasons clear. The Cement Garden suggests that the most terrifying thing about such behavior is its mundane lack of mystery...
...mass, especially in the ancient form practised by the monks at the Cowley monastery at 980 Memorial Drive, is one of the fundamental esthetic experiences of the western world. Major elements of the liturgy have been performed with little change in churches since New Testament times. The monks are professional worshippers and they perform their ancient roles with grace and impeccable timing. The priest at the altar, the candles, the incense, the mysticism, and the compelling solemnity--or their equivalents--are found in the rites of almost all religions, even the most primitive. They strike a chord deep within...
...financially equipped to do today, they should probably think again. But if the MBTA plans to extend the Red Line to the Alewife area, it can not ignore citizens' moral and legal claims. The MBTA may be gambling with all its chips if it does not perform a supplementary EIS before a federal district court orders one. Cambridge citizens are gambling another EIS would reject the MBTA's current plans, and when Cambridge citizens sit down at the table and deal, they don't expect to lose...