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Page 10 KILLS OUTLOOK Saturday February IMS Entertainment Outlook Mystery buffs will have taste for Bitter Medicine sympathetic The amateur female sleuth is almost as old as the mystery novel but the recent appearance of female privete In vesligators Is a relatively new phenomenon One the lop two names that stand out In this sub- genre Sara s V I Vic VI comes to the business after an unsatisfying career among the desks boar of law firms A more activist rote in the field seems to suit her Iconoclastic and humanist tempera A characteristic of these feminist 1 novels la a downplaying of the physical contact coupled to a more realistic portrayal of the research checking and simple Information processing so essential in the covering of modem crime War shawakl a specialty Is business crime and each of her novels turns the spotlight on a particular topic Insurance In Indemnity only the Great Lakes shipping industry In Deadlock and the American hospital industry terminology mine In this latest tale of medical maJ practice stamping ground la that urban monster Chicago As a typical product of the ethnic slew that makes up the city unique character V is peculiarly adopted to coping with its folkways and paranoias While no VI Is no pushover either and always come out on the los ing end of a physical encounter Neither does she require a masculine cavalry charge to rescue her from the villains Most often the denouement Is accomplished by a neatly set up piece of entrapment re quiring nerve and brains not Drawn While author has sue adapted most of the conventions to the feminist mold there arc two she could modify fur The amount of alcohol in detective novels would float tie true with the character the author has been at such pains to establish Both these quibbles arc minor dtscordanices but Vis emotional Loan cupboard offers help Did you know that you can come to Georgetown and borrow crutches a cane or wheelchair you may need as a result of a recent illness or dent You con borrow these items and many more such as hospital beds and commodes through the Georgetown and District Red Cross Sickroom Equipment Loan Cup board All thai is required is a doc tors or other medical approval and a small refundable deposit Tor the use of the equipment that our Branch has ready for you The Georgetown and District Red Cross Branch is open from Bam noon and 30 p to 30 p on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday the Cedarvale Community Center in Georgetown Give call at SAME DAY TAX RETURNS Si 8772217 for such In Bitter Medicine the friends of a brutally murdered young doctor a reluctant Vic into making enquiries independent of the police It a measure of the resignation American city dwellers that hey have almost no faith In official a bill to solve such apparently motiveless crime Naturally the reader and even the novel pro tagonists gradually begin to realize that a series of violent incidents and attacks are somehow linked not only to the murder In question but also to the death In childbirth of a young ac quaintance of Vic who was also a patient or the doctor In the process of solving this put Canadian readers will a few of the Interesting aspects of profitable hospital operation that TV serials don dwell on PS if you are travelling south of the border take out extra hospital In everything GREAT WEEK Academy Award Nomination Best Actor Robin Williams The best military comedy since Uproariously funny j it is a oneman comic tourde force A tidal wave of laughter that may render you unable breathe Two enthusiastic thumbs up 300 ALL SEATS ANY SHOW ON TUESDAYS