Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Julie Rodriguez, from Pueblo, Colo., had liver cancer, which spread despite surgery and drug and X-ray treatment. On July 23, Dr. Thomas Starzl's University of Colorado transplant team removed her liver and replaced it with one from a child killed in an accident. Julie has since had...
In late 1951 Hoffmann returned to France, but through a freak accident (his subscription to Le Monde had expired three days before a change in the application deadline was announced) he arrived home too late to apply to civil service school. Instead he languished in the French army, fulfilling his...
The beauty of The Exterminating Angel is that it transforms inner struggle into something almost physical. Bunuel speaks through his company, paralyzed in one room, of the human condition. He prevents the movie from disintegrating into the mysterious-accident type by injecting symbols--the sheep, for example. We always know...
The day was dark and windy. Scuttling northwest from the ancient Buddhist capital of Hue, the two helicopters were above effective small-arms range as they followed the stretch of Vietnamese coast known as "The Street Without Joy." All at once the lead chopper erupted in a burst of fire...
Characteristically, Dr. Murray reported his work at a fund-raising dinner. Unexpectedly, he had a patient wheeled into the ballroom. The patient: Bertrand Proulx, 24, a Quebec truck driver whose spinal cord was injured in an accident four years ago, had not been able to move his hands or elbows...