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...bodily injuries, few are more traumatic than burns. By searing through flesh and muscle, destroying nerves and blood vessels, and setting up a fertile breeding ground for infection, burns can cripple, disfigure and kill. Last year alone, approximately 7,500 Americans, 1,800 of them under age 15, died of burns. Although this toll is fearsome, the number of burn deaths has remained relatively constant while the population has increased, and the recovery rate from serious burns has improved significantly. The reason: better care for burn victims...
...Some of the worst aftereffects of burns-scars and crippling skin contracture-have been minimized or eliminated by techniques now in use at the Burns Institute of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Galveston, Texas. There, doctors have found that prompt application of lightweight plastic casts keeps burned flesh from contracting as it heals; pressure bandages kept in place 24 hours a day control the buildup of scar tissue and prevent the formation of disfiguring welts. As a result, burn patients who might once have had to undergo a long series of corrective and cosmetic operations can now avoid...
Ralph Nelson's Soldier Blue is one of the new breed of films that no longer treats its Indians so crudely. The Indians in Soldier Blue are real flesh-and-blood. Though mostly blood. Soldier Blue advertises itself as the "most savage film ever made!" It is rated...
Though you're never quite sure in what way it means to be "savage." It does contain some of the most gruesome simulation of violence done to living human flesh that I've ever seen on film. It does pretend to a self-serving sense of moral outrage that the violence it recreates should ever have occurred. Indians, supposedly treated sympathetically, do figure in its plot. And yet, I would like to think, that in admitting their film savage, the makers of Soldier Blue are compulsively confessing to the calculated barbarism that infects the whole wretched picture...
...into a revolution against the Roman occupation. The point of all this is to make it clear by analogy that Jesus was a man, a man who had worries and faults, who had to deal with the same problems all men have to deal with, and who offered his flesh-and-blood body up to crucifixion in the face of very human doubts; the Superstar analogy is just a more or less appropriate metaphor for Messiah. In one of Superstar's climactic songs, "Gethsemane," Jesus sings a doubting, defiant prayer to God (who has an offstage role...