Word: bone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Teddy DeVita, 17, whose struggle to conquer a rare bone marrow disease in an 8-ft. by 9-ft., germ-free isolation room at the National Cancer Institute won him wide attention as the courageous "boy in the glass cage"; of complications from repeated blood transfusions; in Bethesda, Md. Teddy was nine when he developed aplastic anemia, which destroys the body's ability to fight off any infection. His life in his sterile sanctuary, portrayed by John Travolta in a 1976 TV film, was poignant: he sometimes threatened to walk out to virtually certain death, but mostly...
...Even the plumpness of the bronze cast provides the suggestion of skin, while the slightly fuzzy texture of the metal further equivocates, not with the look, but with the feel of flesh. In some ways, the shapes of Marie-Thérèse, smooth and closed, are like the totemic bone forms of Picasso's grotesque anatomies of the '30s, the projects for immense figure-based sculptures that he fantasized building along the Côte d'Azur. But their whole import is different. There is no dislocation or fear in them: they are, as William Blake put it, "the lineaments...
While guarding the Crimson goal, Lechner has proved himself indestructible. He still is playing with a bad wrist which never healed from a serious break sustained last season. Surgery to remove bone chips was planned for this season, between the Princeton and UConn contests, but he cancelled it for fear he might miss a game...
...curtain raiser, is an African fable of greed, about a man who would rather be buried alive than part with a bone...
More conventional techniques have their place too: "Western medicine is a limited healing system, as is mine," he says. "I can't mend a broken bone. But today's grad schools are turning out psychotechnicians who see people as objects, children as objects to be raised, adults as objects to be actualized, realized, healed, fixed. But that doesn't work, for humans are a constantly changing, moment-to-moment process. You can't buy healing...