Word: emphysema
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When Dubuffet died of emphysema last week at 83, he was the most honored senior painter in France -- indeed the most important French visual artist of any kind to emerge since World War II. In the past two decades alone, his oeuvre had filled eight full-scale museum retrospectives and countless one-man shows from Chicago to Paris. Large corporations like Chase Manhattan saw him as a wild pet laden with status, and commissioned huge, dull sculptures from him for their plazas. His fiercely polemical essays, long-winded but dense with aphorism, were collected in two thick volumes. (Nobody...
...news about Chernenko's death was hardly unexpected, given his age, 73, and his increasingly poor health. The medical report, signed by Dr. Yevgeni Chazov, the chief Kremlin physician, revealed that Chernenko had died of heart failure brought on by chronic emphysema. The report noted that the late General Secretary had also suffered from "chronic hepatitis, which worsened into cirrhosis," a deterioration of the liver...
...talks was the continuing leadership muddle in the Kremlin. President Konstantin Chernenko was seen twice on Soviet television last week, ending a public disappearance that lasted nearly two months, but the taped glimpses only served to heighten concern about his poor health. Chernenko, who is believed to suffer from emphysema, looked wan and frail in both appearances; in one, he seemed to be breathing with difficulty. Though he had professed to be hopeful about the outlook for arms negotiations in a speech that was read in his name a few days earlier, the TV footage made his ability to supply...
...candidate for heart replacement because of terminal cardiomyopathy, a progressive weakening of the heart muscle. But his chances seemed better than those of either Clark or Schroeder. Clark, who was all but dead at the time of his implant surgery, not only had heart disease but was suffering from emphysema; Schroeder had diabetes and advanced atherosclerosis...
...Sunday, in a heavily-edited one-minute film, Soviet TV showed a pale and very feeble Chernenko voting. It was his first public appearance in two months. Nonetheless, the earlier admission fueled speculation that Chernenko, who is thought to be suffering from acute emphysema, may soon be replaced. Also significant is that Soviet newspaper accounts of last Friday's gathering deleted all references to Chernenko's role as chairman of the Defense Council. The omissions could mean that the party now wants to play down Chernenko's responsibilities...