Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hurdes in which a plain child's coffin is carried down through Spanish passes on the shoulders of grieving relatives. "The rendition of death is liquid," he remembers, "the camera turns and dances, the river ruffles at the men's legs." If this description--with its stark imagery and fluid camera work--is reminiscent of a dream memory, it is by no means coincidental. For the language of dreams mediates between Cuscat's life as he actually lived it and Wilson's imaginative portrait of this life. The documents and folk tales, the social details and visual images only...
...real problems came from a slug that entered the fluid-filled spinal canal and came to rest head downward opposite the first lumbar vertebra, just at the waist. At week's end the doctors still could not say whether the bullet severed all or part of the bundle of nerves that carries impulses from the lower body to the brain. But in any case, the effect could be devastating. The very impact of the bullet probably bruised the delicate nerve tissue severely, causing grave injury. Wallace reported no feeling in his legs; neither his bladder nor his bowels were...
...PK.U test at birth. Doctors can recognize the chromosomal flaw that causes mongolism and 27 of the genetic quirks known to cause retardation. More important, they can diagnose these in the fetus by amniocentesis. A needle is inserted into the uterus to draw off a sample of the fluid in which the fetus floats. The material is analyzed for extra or missing chromosomes or absent enzymes...
...then, is not the depth of its actors but Mizoguchi's perception of their interactions with a restrictive society, one that would keep women from their lovers, artists from their work, men from their friends. No one is ever alone except for the woman trailing her lover. Mizoguchi's fluid camera wanders in and out among the people, the crowds of women lined up before feudal lords, groups walking through the city streets, a girl cringing in a corner. The camera observes everything, tolerant and forgiving. Even the worst actions proceed only from the passions of the too-loving heart...
...Senator William Spong Jr., took to the pulpit last week to label Carwile's remarks as "the cheap shot of an insensitive politician." The councilman was unrepentant. Dismissing Spong as an "ecclesiastical lickspittle," he added: "When I look at some spiritually anemic preachers, I think of embalming fluid." Inevitably, Carwile's tasteless demagoguery led to a sick joke. The councilman was not being macabre, the snicker went, he was just trying to drum up some business for Mayor Thomas Bliley Jr. Bliley is one of the city's leading morticians...