Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thompson watched a triple bypass operation being performed on a longshoreman. His conclusion: "In surgery, the heart seemed no more mysterious than a clock. But later, when I saw the man's family in the waiting room, I remembered that a collection of those little machines-liver, heart, brain and the rest-work together and somehow produce laughter and love. To me, that's the greatest mystery...
Agca hardly accomplished that. He was, on first examination, a strange specimen of indecipherable politics-radical right and radical left curving around in his brain and meeting each other going the other way. He appeared also to be what
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins...
...which to play it. On streets, in parks, on bikes and buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback book, it has feather-light earphones that transmit sound of concert-hall clarity directly to the brain of the wearer, without bothering anyone near by. As Detroit Audio Salesman Thomas Badoud puts it, "These babies are unreal...
...Brain, Cook...