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...they do it? Not forever. Intimations of mortality started dogging the show around 1986, with Pam's dream season. Dallasites took their soap seriously, and the plot twist played like a declaration of facetiousness. After that, the show became a kind of dinner-theater version of itself -- flaccid, repetitious, drowsier than the Texas economy -- and receded discreetly into the haze of Has-Been. Even the ebullient Hagman had trouble keeping track of J.R.'s misdeeds: "I really can't remember half of the people I've slept with, stabbed in the back or driven to suicide." And why shouldn...
...patient is given only a local anesthetic at the temples-the brain itself is insensitive-and the doctors encourage him to talk, sing or recite poems and prayers while the operation is in progress. As his lobes are sliced, he becomes drowsier, more confused and incoherent. When his replies to questions show that his mind is thoroughly disoriented, the doctors know they have cut deep enough into his brain. (Dr. Freeman once casually asked a patient, "What's going through your mind now?" Said the patient: "A knife...
...many of the rooms continues abominable. The surprising part of it all is that the men themselves do not take one of the remedies into their own hands, and open some windows. A class will sit through a recitation with every window tight shut, will grow drowsier every minute the air grows worse, and yet no one will have the common sense to open two windows a few inches at the top, and set some good air circulating. Much has been said, and wisely too, about the sanitary necessity of pure air. There is another side of the question which...
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