Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dying heart was an I ugly yellowish color when Dr. William DeVries finally cut it loose, tore it out of the Mercurochrome-stained chest cavity, and put it to one side. For the next three hours, while a nearby heart-lung bypass machine kept the unconscious patient alive?and while a tape in the background eerily played Mendelssohn and Vivaldi?DeVries' sure hands carefully stitched into place a grapefruit-size gadget made of aluminum and polyurethane. At 12:50 p.m. last Monday, the Jarvik-7 artificial heart newly sewn inside William J. Schroeder began beating steadily, 70 beats...
Nobody likes to admit that triage is already being employed in high-tech medicine. When a Long Island hospital was accused last summer of posting color-coded charts next to patients who could be allowed to die, its officials loudly denied the district attorney's accusations and the matter was allowed to drop...
Will Barnet is best known for his prints; his bold use of primary colors and flattened perspective, along with the enigmatic presence of women and cats, has become a trademark. The public knows far less about Barnet's painting, and with good reason; a substantial number of his works over the past 50 years reside in private collections. Luckily, some of these patrons have agreed to share their wealth. Will Barnet by Robert Doty (Abrams; 168 pages; $45) reproduces 91 oils and sketches (48 in color), many for the first time. The result, arranged chronologically, is a fascinating portrait...
Other professional sports may spread throughout the calendar, but to baseball there is still a season. While waiting, bereft, for it to begin again, the true fan will find no brighter winter solace than Base ball (Abrams; 160 pages; $35). The 133 color shots by former SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Photographer Walter looss Jr. catch all the right action, from Maury Wills airborne on the way to second to Nolan Ryan throwing smoke. But in many ways the photographs are more striking when they turn aside to the game's quieter images...
...source of power, a lever of control, why should anyone give it away?"), while revenge is one of the highest virtues ("On this Catholic island, statues of a weeping Jesus in every home. Christian forgiveness was a contemptible refuge of the coward"). In the New World, far from the color and tradition, Don Corleone takes an even more brutish view: "Live your life not to be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish...