Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mona was wending her enigmatic way from Washington, via air-conditioned van, to Manhattan, where she went on view for 3½ weeks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Despite rain, slush and bone-cracking cold, a crowd of 23,872 queued up in three-block-long lines on the first day to make frostbitten obeisance before the lady with the greenish face in her bulletproof, heat-and-humidity-controlled shrine...
Certain other racial differences are less clearly adaptive. It is known that a newborn Negro baby has more advanced bone development than a white baby. The early lead of the Negro continues throughout growth, so that the adult Negro possesses a generally heavier skeleton than the white adult. Also, Negro babies seem to develop motor control more rapidly than white babies. Among Negro adults, there seem to be different endocrine mechanisms regulating body responses to stress...
This is the situation examined in this picture. It is not a pleasant situation and it is not a pleasant picture. But as far as it goes the film is bone-honest, and at moments it is mortally moving. Adapted by Abby Mann from his 1957 television play, A Child Is Waiting describes in fiction that keeps close to fact what is being done in the better state schools for retarded children. And in the process it permits the spectator to spend 102 minutes in the company of 40 children clinically classified as imbeciles, idiots and morons-real retardates...
...many enthusiastic claims for the drill is that it will not damage flesh or other soft tissues. Many of last week's conventioneers plucked up their courage and jammed a bare finger against the whirring drill. It stopped without drawing blood or even causing pain. But shoved against bone or tissue that has been hardened by chalky deposits, the drill will cut with ease. One Pittsburgh surgeon has already used it to sculpture the delicate leaflets of an aortic valve (adjoining the heart) after they had been deformed by calcification. Because its lightness and small size permit pinpoint accuracy...
...turn up to 100,000 revolutions per minute and come to a dead stop in a fraction of a second. Its carbide burs will drill a neat hole or, if moved sideways, work like a power saw. The burs develop no heat as they drill or slice swiftly through bone...