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...Worlds, The Right Stuff, Strange Invaders, Eddie and the Cruisers and Plan 9 from Outer Space mixed and mismatched as if by a mad scientist in his Late Show lab. And its Japanese-American hero? He is only the avatar of Han Solo, A. J. Foyt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christiaan Barnard, Bruce Lee and Bruce Springsteen. A state-of-the-art spaceship flying at the speed of light without narrative coordinates, Buckaroo Banzai is the very oddest good movie in many a full moon...
...team at Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center, headed by Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, admitted "unequivocal failure." Their patient, a 19-day-old boy, died 6½ hours after he received a new heart. But the team of Dr. Christiaan Neethling Barnard, 44, which acted first at Cape Town, South Africa, had a more enduring success. Their patient, a 55-year-old man, was feeding himself and making small talk a week after his epochal surgery...
...child's parents, outrage mounted over the classification policy. Racial typing, declared the Rand Daily Mail, was "the cause of more human agony than any other of the South African statutes." Dr. Marius Barnard, a member of the opposition Progressive Federal Party and brother of Heart Surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard, urged the government to classify Lize as white. Said he: "It is the innocent who suffer in these matters." At week's end no one had yet decided whether Lize would go through life enjoying the privileges of white society or be a second-class citizen...
Given these limitations, what is the role of the permanent artificial heart? "The best solution remains the heart transplant," insists Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the South African surgeon who pioneered that solution. Transplants have kept patients alive for up to 14 years. (In the U.S., some 500 people have received transplants since 1967; the current five-year survival rate...
...safety is an illusion, and so is paradise. Speaking before another Chautauqua audience this day, Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the first heart transplant, says that it is inhuman and arrogant for doctors to prolong life artificially if nothing but pain or coma lies ahead for the patient. His predominantly gray-haired audience cheers. A moment later, one of his listeners falls ill. As he is carried out by ambulance attendants, he gives a V sign to the crowd...