Word: detour
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...surgery is, quite literally, to find a way around fat-clogged arteries in order to keep blood flowing to the heart. This is done by taking a segment of a blood vessel, usually from the leg, and grafting it into the chest, where it is used to create a detour around the obstruction. For patients with blockages in the left main coronary artery, the heart's principal conduit, a bypass offers the best hope of prolonging life. The procedure is also the treatment of choice for those with crippling pain due to several clogged coronary arteries...
...swerving. No matter what the season, however, the same message greets travelers only a few miles outside the holiest of Muslim cities. Non-Muslims, the blue-and-white sign warns in English, must now leave the road. Only Muslims are allowed to visit Mecca; others must take a circuitous detour around the city. Farther down the road, armed guards make sure that the stricture is observed...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM takes the audience on a long detour most of the way through his musical comedy Company. Up until the very last scene, the plot focuses on a surprises birthday party thrown for Robert by five couples his best friends. Between repeated sequences of the same party we watch brief flashback type includes between Robert and each of the five couples who are trying to convince him to get married. Robert responds by becoming his rate as a single man hypocritically, because he is currently dating three completely different, unusual women. And when the first act ends exact...
...life is in limbo. So she tumbles into a lesbian affair with her night-school professor, Ruth (Jane Hallaren), to whom fond Lianna is the adoring, precocious student. Is Lianna in love or just restless? Does the affair represent an irrevocable change in her sexual preference or just a detour? Is the discovery of herself worth the loss of family and best friends...
...Loren coped with the quotidian in the foreground. But La Nuit de Varennes is a much richer film. In Day the protagonists virtually ignored the great events moving around them. In Varennes they are relentlessly articulate in expressing views about them, ranging from right to left with a splendid detour for Casanova's apolitical self-absorption and his mourning for vanished elegance...