Word: defective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them should be far easier than with the Brodies, of whom only Rodney Dee survived. But doctors still could not be sure that the girls did not share a single sagittal sinus (a major vein returning blood from the top of the brain toward the heart). It was this defect that proved fatal to Roger Lee Brodie. Before surgery is attempted, the twins will be studied for months by the same medical team that operated on the Brodies...
Ultimately the worst defect of the Old Vic production is that by using an almost uncut text it makes matters too sluggish and protracted for a musical spectacle (while so much dancing and music are fatal to any true unfolding of the play). There is thus no harmonized effect, only a medley of impressions; and along with much that is genuinely charming about equally much that is unmercifully dull...
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Executive Suite is a movie about a struggle for power between commercialism and idealism in a large business, and it is therefore truly unfortunate that the people who made the film had no idea at all of the nature of idealism. This defect has long troubled the moviemakers, a group of people fatally fascinated by what they do not understand. Such unrequited love once resulted in Communist screen-writers who made a thousand dollars a week; now it takes the somewhat more dangerous form of pictures like "Executive Suite...
Surgeons have been making hopeful progress toward their dream of perfecting a mechanical heart, but last week it appeared that for many cases nature had beaten them to the answer. If the patient is a child suffering from an inborn heart defect, the University of Minnesota reported, the best substitute for the human heart is another heart. Doctors have so used it in three operations, hooking up a child-patient's blood flow with the father's so that the father's heart and lungs do the work for both. This can go on for half...