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...People think of surgery," writes the author, "as a grim, tense business with the surgeon snapping 'Scalpel!' and 'Clamp!' and everything going along in dramatic silence except for the click, click of instruments. This is just a lot of hogwash. About half the time the surgeon is telling dirty jokes with the fixed intent of embarrassing the scrub nurse. The rest of the time there is bickering, or gossip, or talk about how things were last winter in Palm Springs, or how many suction cups on a squid's tentacles, or whether a woman...
...Novocain in the neck, then a second injection to deaden the phrenic nerve. Surgeons watched as the Novocain took effect and Lucy's hiccups suddenly stopped. Reasonably sure that they had found the source of the trouble, they proceeded to the next step: "crushing" the nerve with a clamp. Lucy's hiccuping diaphragm remained at rest...
...blue Chinese ideographs on a herd of white cows. "Poor little 'E' " came along, and he decided to redecorate his gangling and disjointed daughter. When she was eleven he fitted her from head to foot with orthopedic braces designed to realign her physique-not omitting a steel clamp that gripped her nose and was "regulated by a lock-and-key system...
...record collections inside Russia. More important, the duumvirate fired Khrushchev's hated chief ideologue Leonid Ilyichev, replaced him with Party Secretary Petr Demichev. Demichev has informed Soviet artists and writers that the party will no longer interfere in matters of style, though it still retains the threat to clamp down on "nonSocialist content." Today a Socialist abstract painting is not a target of automatic denunciation. Such Western authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Updike are now being published in Russian...
...Plantagenets of England. Her family had held land near their pinnacled greystone house of Renishaw since 1301. She had a miserable childhood, for her Victorian father disapproved of everything, from her friendship with a peacock to the shape of her nose, which he tried to alter with an iron clamp...