Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALFONSO OSSORIO-Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th St. Twenty-nine panels on which seashells, fake pearls, links of rusty chain, hunks of bone (with glass eyes staring from the marrow), shards of mirrors, jaw teeth, driftwood and other flotsam have become mired in puddles of plastic glue. Gaudy, repetitious and faintly emetic. Through...
Magnified Pride. Diem's virtues of honesty, courage and bone-deep anti-Communism remained. But his faults-stubbornness, nepotism, suspicion, a mandarin pride-became magnified. Once his mind was made up, Diem would not budge. His meetings with foreign officials degenerated into monologues-one Western ambassador estimated that he had been able to speak only 500 words in a four-hour interview with Diem...
...Bone surgeons joined the radius (larger of the two forearm bones) with a narrow metal plate held in place by two screws driven through each end into the bone. The smaller bone was left to rejoin itself. Vascular surgeons joined the major blood vessels, not by stitching, which even the traditionally patient Chinese admit is difficult, but by turning one end up into a cuff over a tiny plastic ring and pulling the other end over the slight bulge...
...gashes in the skin between the fingers and down the back of the hand, and applied strong salt compresses to draw the fluid out. Very smart, said the U.S. surgeons in their critique. The swelling subsided within a week. After two months the metal plate was removed, but the bones were healing poorly, so the surgeons packed in bone chips as a sort of cement...
...scout and follow in the footsteps of Baltimore Quarterback Johnny Unitas, who strode straight from a sandlot into the pros. But most are onetime high school and college players with no illusions. They play for the earthy satisfaction of throwing a crumpling block or making a bone-crushing tackle...