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...Johns Hopkins faculty, discovered in the 1930s that a brief jolt of electricity applied to a fibrillating heart muscle could restore the organ to a steady pace. While working on a portable defibrillator for use without surgery, Kouwenhoven also found that a stopped heart could often be restarted by brisk, repeated pressure on the breastbone. External cardiac massage has since been used by laymen and physicians to save countless lives...
...convinced the Combat Zone is more likely to soothe people than incite crime. His store accommodates clientele ranging from derelicts to gentlemen in Brooks Brothers suits, and sales are brisk during the day, when people feel safe in the Zone. The men aren't particularly discriminating. They seem to be interested in the simplistic tomes on Hitler and Toshiro, sensational descriptions of sodomy and pederasty, and devices for simulating sex when a complete partner isn't handy. They don't even complain when the peep shows they expected to see for a single quarter stop abruptly midway through the reel...
...burst upon the scene with Harbinger. He was only 24, a soloist at the American Ballet Theater. The son of a Brooklyn lawyer, he had been dancing since he was twelve. Harbinger is a young man's work-brisk, sunny and humorous. In the ballet world, it kicked up the same sort of commotion caused 23 years earlier by Fancy Free, Jerome Robbins' first success...
Then came the bad temper of my roommate, as brisk and fast as the winter cold that swept up against the windows of our second-floor flat from the Place Contrescarpe twenty meters away. My roommate was often angry at me, and there were a lot of things he did that made me angry too, and I suppose the problem wouldn't have been as bad if we hadn't both been morning drinkers but then Paris is a morning drinker's town and we felt in Paris in those days that wine was a good thing, it made...
Before long−and A Pain in the A− is nothing if not brisk−Ventura is forced to take Brel under his wing, approximately the place where his rifle butt ought...