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Recuperation is slow and recovery elusive. Further heart problems bring Lear back to the hospital, this time for bypass surgery. After the operation, he suffers the most dreadful euphemism in the doctors' lexicon: "Complications." Rudeness and evasion become the order of the day, and a fatal demoralization sets in. "The patient," Martha Lear notes, "had been blamed for his illness, had been handed back his questions, unopened, and had been left feeling rejected, abandoned ... This is classic in long chronic disease; this is what the failures of the body do unerringly to the soul...
This is the sort of setup that tempts jealous gods and novelists. What will it be this time: brain tumor? Hodgkin's disease? coronary bypass? Segal has something more imaginative in mind. In 1968 Husband Bob attended a conference in the south of France. The country was gripped by unrest, and he managed to get his head in the way of a policeman's cosh. First aid was administered by a beautiful female physician who then prescribed house calls. What patient could resist such doctor's orders...
...before a remarkable final display of Tito's legendary physical resistance. Stricken with a dangerous blockage in his circulatory system, Tito was admitted on Jan. 12 to a clinic in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. Within eight days, he underwent two high-risk operations: an arterial bypass to circumvent his circulation blockages, and then, after that had failed and gangrene set in, the amputation of his left leg. Tito at first appeared to make a strong recovery from these operations, which he had been given only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving. In February, however, he suffered a relapse...
...bill, which would have allowed the developer of Parcel 1B, located next to the Harvard Motor House off Brattle Sq., to bypass some state and local reviews, "is dead for now," a source on the committee said yesterday...
...enters a milieu, that of working-class life, that the movies often bypass. Thomas Hacklin lives in Buffalo and works for a tire factory. His car is dilapidated, and the house his wife and kids inhabit (he is divorced) is, at best, humble. Life for him is a few beers with the boys after work, a Saturday-night dance at the union hall and a little amateur baseball on Sunday afternoon. As director, Caan reveals the character with a sympathy that never patronizes. As an actor, he shows him as a good-natured fellow sustained by simple loyalties. Hacklin...