Word: deft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Bloodletting in the groves of academe. Two faculty couples (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis and George Segal) cut each other up with words, words, and more words in a deft screen version of Edward Albee's play...
Heaven Itself. This week Tiepolo's deft, dramatic touch is revealed in a new dimension. For the first time in a century, three huge masterworks of Tiepolo's youth, recently acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, are being put on exhibition. Part of a ten-work cycle portraying scenes from Roman history,*they were painted for the Ca' Dolfin in Venice some time be tween 1725 and 1730, when Tiepolo was barely 30 years old. Standing between the gloomy realism of his earliest canvases and the lyrical idealism that made his later ceilings look like heaven...
Moscow's Research Institute of Experimental Surgical Apparatus and Instruments went to work in the 1950s and devised 20-odd mechanical staplers to suture internal tissues together with stainless steel wires. But few surgeons were ready to drop their deft fingerwork and give the experimental devices a try. Now, almost a decade later, American improvements on Russian designs are beginning to bring automatic suturing into the operating room...
Graebner was not through proving how far he has come. Drawing Osuna in the second series of singles, he treated the home folks in Cleveland to the best tennis of the entire match, acing the Mexican eight times with his slashing serve, and outshooting him with deft passing drives in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. To cap it off, 19-year-old Cliff Richey, the U.S. clay-court champion (TIME, July 29), made his own Davis Cup debut in the other singles by beating Mexico's Marcelo Lara in a grueling four-set match...
...Michael DeBakey's plastic "half-hearts," developed at Baylor and Rice universities. Used mostly outside rather than partly inside the body-as in previous cases-the pump increased Mrs. Vasquez's heart output by as much as 40% while she recuperated from deft surgical replacement of valves damaged by rheumatic fever. Two previous patients of Dr. DeBakey's, both men in their 60s, died despite aid from the heart pump; but at week's end the artificial half-heart was removed from the younger, stronger Mexican woman in a 20-minute operation, and her own heart...