The audience walked out of the theater starving, and the actors walked away from the set sick".
The first song from the set, "Sick Man of Europe," has been released on YouTube; the title is interesting to diehard fans, because it's the name Rick Nielsen gave the band in the early seventies, when Randy Hogan was still the lead vocalist.
But the board also sets sick pay, holiday pay and a graded pay progression, important when so many work on small farms with little chance of promotion.
The whimsical, sometimes bizarre program, set during sick days and hazy summers off, focussed on the fantastical exploits of two carrot-topped brothers named Pete.
Afterward, the Japanese set their sick and starving American and Filipino captives on a 66-mile walk under a broiling sun to prison camp, an infamous trek now known as the Bataan Death March.
Remarkable for Ginger downing an enemy aircraft with a 20lb tin of corned beef, Biggles Flies North shares some characteristics with John Buchan's doomy Canada-set Sick Heart River (1941).
"I set up a sick bed for my grandmother in my apartment," Ms. Israel recalled.
Within the space of a thought it is inside me, and has set up a sick resonance within my bones and in all the cavities of my body.
With federal expansion elusive (Representative Rosa DeLauro and Senator Tom Harkin plan to introduce the Healthy Families Act, which would set a national sick days standard, in mid-March), the momentum lies with cities and states.
It is past time that all states adopt these policies, and that Congress pass federal legislation such as the Family And Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act, which would establish a paid family and medical leave insurance program; the Healthy Families Act, which would set a paid sick days standard; and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which would help combat pregnancy discrimination.
I don't recall if I could actually finish the entire box set in one sick day -- common sense would suggest no -- but I'd certainly take a good shot at it, and if I had strep throat or some other multiple-day illness I might even start over again from the beginning.
