Word: coma
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...wife prepares to don widow's weeds, his children begin to adjust as orphans, his sister flies from England for the funeral. A monogrammed casket is purchased, a cemetery plot arranged for, But there is no funeral. Thirty-six hours after his "death," Godfrey rises from a deep coma, a little shaky but quite ready to resume his life...
...year-old New Yorker in Manhattan's Memorial Hospital had an incurable and inoperable brain cancer. After he lapsed into a month-long coma and his brothers knew that he was dying, they decided to let the hospital remove as many organs as possible for transplants in the hope of prolonging life for others. Last week, when the unidentified patient died, a huge surgical complex, which had been on standby alert for a week, moved into swift and multiple action...
...Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar took a nasty spill at his summer residence, São João do Estoril, when a deck chair collapsed under him. Soon after an operation for a blood clot on his brain a few weeks later, he sank into a coma that kept him near death. His government stood by uneasily, waiting for his recovery. By September, the medical prognosis was that he would never be able to resume his duties, and Lawyer Marcello Caetano became Premier...
...most often called inspiration strikes. "In whatever medium that is congenial to his talent," he writes of the artist, "he painlessly cracks through how things were, to how things are." Truman Capote is more succinct, though no more enlightening, when he records that "excitement-a variety of creative coma-overcame...
...other side of the Heidi story [Nov. 29]: Small town, two channels, football on both of them. Rotten weather, ten children, nine of them running, leaping, screaming and fighting. Baby can't walk, thank God. Father in absolute coma, doesn't see, hear anything but football game. Mother a pitiful, broken creature, swilling beer (small town, no LSD available) making dinner; will they ever stop, grow up, sit down? Finally, 6:55. Mother sits down with Sunday papers. Children settle down. Cut to Heidi, end of game on television. Father goes completely berserk. Tough, there are eleven...