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...University School of Medicine: "The more a woman drinks while she is pregnant and the longer she drinks, the higher the risk of FAS." Even so, moderate drinking is not considered safe. "Our best evidence is that we cannot detect adverse consequences to very light drinking," says Dr. Robert Sokol, head of the federally funded fetal alcohol research center at Wayne State University, in Detroit. "But that doesn't mean they don't exist." Beer, wine and hard liquor do not seem to differ in their impact on the fetus...
...believe that the evidence against alcohol is strong enough to warrant strict warnings. But others disagree and doubt that warning signs are justified. Basically, physicians are disputing the degree of alcohol consumption necessary to risk the abnormalities that physicians call FAS, for fetal alcohol syndrome. Says Dr. Robert J. Sokol, an obstetrician at Wayne State University: "It's questionable whether there has ever been a case of an FAS child born to less than a chronically addicted woman." Dr. John Larsen of George Washington University even takes issue with the Surgeon General's findings. There is no evidence...
...that they talked and jeered throughout. Robert Mann retaliated by playing with his back to the crowd. When the Concord was playing at Vassar in 1972, the group had to stop twice in a lengthy George Rochberg quartet to replace broken strings. As he turned the last page, Violinist Sokol breathed a sigh of relief?and his music fluttered to the floor. When Cellist Norman Fischer bent down to retrieve it, he knocked over Second Violinist Andrew Jennings' stand. Then Fischer's own crashed over. It was a case of concerted collapse...
...choices but to flash around their stylized plastic masks and they do so with considerable cleverness. Only John McMartin as Dion Anthony has difficulty finessing his way through the surrealistic script. The New Phoenix's leading lady. Katherine Helmond, does well in the role of Margaret, and Marilyn Sokol is fine as Cybel, although offhand it's difficult to picture how an Earth Mother should be. Best of all is John Glover as Billy Brown. Quick and versatile, the play's few moments of glory...
...Gordon Cornell), the informer and fence; Lockit (Ralston Hill), the venal jailer of Newgate; and MacHeath (Timothy Jerome), the saucy highwayman who can down a wench as quickly as a cup of sack. As two of the ladies of his choice, Polly Peachum (Kathleen Widdoes) and Lucy Lockit (Marilyn Sokol) are erotic sprites...