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...everyone in the room." But the new heart failed to pump properly, and a standby unit had to be substituted. Finally, after 7½ hr., Clark's heart output was normal, he had what was described as "the blood pressure of an 18-year-old," and his bluish skin was beginning to blush pink. Still, DeVries warned, "there are many more hurdles ahead...
...successive rainfalls make the water increasingly acidic, lakes and rivers turn oddly clear and bluish. Their surviving microorganisms are trapped beneath layers of moss on the bottom; the afflicted water cannot support any but the most primitive forms of life. Some areas, rich in alkaline limestone, are able to resist the assault by "buffering" or neutralizing acid precipitation. But much of New York, New England, eastern Canada and Scandinavia is covered with thin, rocky topsoil left by glaciers long ago, and is particularly vulnerable to acid rain...
...suit, however, is the magnificent cinematography of Russell Boyd. One after another, rich sequences of film fill the screen. Shots of furtive faces seen through the wheels of a passing train, or of a shimmering Australian desert, or of boatloads of soldiers making an amphibious assault through an eerie bluish fog make Gallipoli the kind of movie that you would not want to leave even if the sound track broke...
...night last December, Israeli scientists and energy officials gathered in the tiny desert community of Ein Bokek near the southern shore of the Dead Sea. At the command of the Energy Minister, a switch was thrown and a battery of floodlights suddenly blazed in the darkness, casting an eerie bluish glow over the nearby hills. As onlookers cheered, one dazzled scientist exulted: "We have hit the skeptics pretty hard...
...more demanding kind of diction ?exemplary and grand, like the art of the museums. All manner of stylistic sources fed into their project: the abstracted allegories of Puvis de Chavannes, for instance, gave some cues to Gauguin, as did the formal outlining of Japanese cloisonne enamel: that bluish bounding line was the diametric opposite of impressionist blur and pulsation. The swirling abstract patterns it the background of Paul Signac's portrait of Critic Félix Fénéon?with its long portmanteau title, Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones and Colors, Portrait...