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...parqueted with poplars, silver the screen like scenes from the hand of Ruisdael; but the script is often awkward and the acting consistently crude. Yet the picture is a moving experience. Il Grido means The Cry, and the cry comes from the heart. With it, Antonioni opens the aorta of his talent and releases the cold grey mainstream of his feeling, the chilling theme of all his art: that modern man has somehow lost the meaning of his life, that God alone knows when he will find it again, and that God may not exist...
...naturally removed in the veins, and send only part of it to the lungs for re-oxygenation. The Taussig-Blalock operation, devised years before open-heart surgery with a heart-lung machine became possible, is a compromise: it consists of purposely creating a fifth defect-a connection from the aorta to the pulmonary artery-to shunt more blood to the lungs and thus overcome some of the effects of the original four...
...from 40% to 60% of syphilis victims pass through the primary and secondary stages without knowing what has hit them. Then the spirochete goes underground, to erupt at intervals over the years in new active phases. Finally, in about half of the untreated cases, it attacks the heart and aorta, the brain and spinal cord. If the victim does not die of heart disease, he may end his days as a lame, blind, insane, partially paralyzed patient in a mental hospital...
...Pathologist Jachimczyk's study showed that 1) Marshall had been hit on the head with sufficient force to knock him out; 2) there were bruises on his face; 3) he could hardly have shot himself five times, since one bullet pierced his aorta, one a lung, another the liver-any of which would have caused quick death...
Died. Ernie Kovacs, 42, mustachioed, cigar-frazzling master of madcap nihilistic humor; of a fractured skull and a ruptured aorta suffered when his car crashed into a utility pole; in West Los Angeles. Son of an immigrant Hungarian tavern keeper, Kovacs started off as an $18-a-week radio announcer in Trenton, N.J., scored his first TV success when he leered out at Philadelphia viewers while running a vacuum cleaner upside down over the studio ceiling, went on to win nationwide fame with three big-box-office movies (Operation Mad Ball, Bell, Book and Candle, Our Man in Havana...