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...come out of a coma twice. "When they start to get sick, they may just want to lie down," Helen says. She is a 41-year-old black woman, a matriarchal blend of sweetness and strength. "You have to say, 'Let's do patty-cake,' 'Let's sing,' 'Let's kiss on each other a little while.' Let's do all those mushy things that prolong the child's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foster Children with the AIDS Virus: Families That Open Their Homes to the Sick | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...weeks later, at Helen's house, the mushy things no longer suffice. The doctors have prescribed morphine for Denise's pain, and Helen has begun to sing, "Jesus loves me! This I know," as she rocks the child. "It's O.K. to go," she whispers. "These arms will hold you again." At a hospital soon after, with Helen and her husband and the birth mother all cradling one another and the child, Denise heeds Helen's sweet voice and dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foster Children with the AIDS Virus: Families That Open Their Homes to the Sick | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...Grinch Army Faction will make its first appearance this Friday at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lecture on anarchism, Fucella said. He added that the group will sing two "dis-Christmas carols" before the speech, entitled "Josiah Warren--The First American Anarchist...

Author: By Jennifer Atkinson, | Title: Group Plans to 'Steal' Christmas | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

...computer technician, how to raise birds and why Roger Staubach buys National Home insurance. I read through "Suburban Help Wanted" (Vol. XI, published in Burlington, MA). I browsed the bulletin board ads and even considered calling the Reading Barbershop Quartet and asking them to sing to me over the phone. I finally lost interest after asking in vain for the story of the oil portrait of George Rubin (founder of the store), which was hanging over the meat counter; the butcher boy seemed surprised to see it up there...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Post-Election Escapism | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

Pier Carlo Talenti certainly looks the part of Che Guevara, the South American revolutionary who narrates the show, but he's a little short on the cynicism his role requires. It's hard to sing and be sarcastic at the same time, and Talenti has clearly opted for the former. Talenti has a good voice, but Evita asks more of him than vocal skills, and he falls short of the play's demands...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Viva Evita! | 11/18/1988 | See Source »

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