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...hands to pound home his points, toying with his glasses and abandoning his previous deadpan, Sunday-sermon visage for a range of grins and grimaces, smiles and scowls worthy of a Method actor. All the while, an Army Signal Corpsman crouched unseen behind the lectern, reeling out microphone cord when Johnson wandered to the edge of the stage and making sure that he did not trip himself...
Characteristically, Dr. Murray reported his work at a fund-raising dinner. Unexpectedly, he had a patient wheeled into the ballroom. The patient: Bertrand Proulx, 24, a Quebec truck driver whose spinal cord was injured in an accident four years ago, had not been able to move his hands or elbows and breathed with his diaphragm because he could not expand his chest...
Never Before. The spinal cord is a cylinder of whitish-grey mush surrounded by a tough casing, running through the hollow centers of the vertebrae and intervertebral discs. Inside the cord are nerve cells and main nerve tracts like a telephone installer's spaghetti wire. Although smaller nerves in the extremities may regenerate after injury and partial restoration of function is possible if the cord is not completely severed, there is virtually no precedent of rejoining and restoring function to a completely severed spinal cord in man. Dr. Murray offered a simple explanation of previous failure and his apparent...
Chuck Berry slips on stage midst the buttered bedlam, carrying a greasy red guitar. Someone is aware enough to start a smattering of applause. Berry does not acknowledge this, but squats with his back to the audience and tugs at an amplifier cord. Quickly he tunes his guitar, places it back in its case on the edge of the stage, and again disappears...
...that tries to clarify why men fail to help each other in times of stress and danger. Unquestionably, the passengers could have saved themselves; any one of them might have got off to summon help before the thugs thought to block the doors, or at least yanked the emergency cord. Nobody does, because the paralysis of fear has linked them all. The eventual resolution is placed in the hands of the one person least caught up in the life of the jungle of cities-the crippled Oklahoma soldier (Beau Bridges). The Incident thus plausibly proposes the desiccating, depersonalizing pressure...