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...HOPED TO RIDE THE CROW, his third significant Hollywood film, to stardom. Instead it was a bird of ill omen. A storm destroyed sets; a carpenter was nearly electrocuted. Then during Wednesday's filming, a gun that should have shot blanks apparently fired something that passed through Lee's abdomen and lodged next to his spine, killing him. "I don't know how it got in ((the gun))," said The Crow's executive producer of the projectile, later identified as a .44-cal. bullet...
...jazzed-up classical music during scene changes -- the text is short on plot and long on debate, to a degree that makes Shaw look taciturn. In touching on many themes, it embraces none. The excitement comes from Stevenson, flailing in outrage, cosseting a deranged daughter, nibbling her lover's abdomen in tenderness, peering with professional scrutiny at a war victim's ghastly wounds. The role offers an actress everything, and Stevenson is everything one could want in an actress...
...death of another one of their own when a vehicle hit a land mine, are more than ready to leave. Fallout continues from an incident five weeks ago: Gunnery Sergeant Harry Conde, infuriated when his prescription sunglasses were stripped off by a Somali youth, shot the boy in the abdomen. A military court is now considering whether he used "excessive force...
...reality check" to work on her cadaver once the group began examining the abdomen, Ogilvie says. "There was just cancer everywhere," she says. To look at certain organs, her group had to remove tumors. "To see...what caused this man's death was a draining experience, and hard," she says. "It was really up close--what cancer looks like, what death looks like...
...approach to surgery that is rapidly displacing the dreaded knife and scalpel. "We are witnessing the greatest surgical revolution in the past 50 years," exclaims Dr. William Schuessler, a urological surgeon from San Antonio. The instrument sparking such enthusiasm is variously known as a laparoscope (when used in the abdomen), an arthroscope (when applied to the joints), a thoracoscope (when the chest is involved) and an angioscope (when the target lies inside blood vessel walls). But apart from differences in length and thickness, all these scopes are fundamentally alike: slender fiber-optic tubes that can be inserted deep inside...