Word: gel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long since concluded that New York is a vastly disappointing restaurant town, and the higher a restaurant's reputation the more demanding he seems to be. Said he of Voisin this year: "The egg en gelée was gross, the shrimp marseillaise was overcooked, although in an excellent spiced sauce, and the grilled sweetbreads Rose Marie tasted unpleasantly of smoke." The Colony, he says, can be worse. Best in the city, he insists, is Henri Soulé's Le Pavilion, followed by Joe Kennedy's favorite, La Caravelle. But the man from the Times...
...sponge to the shape of a human ear and cover it with skin grafts. For men who have undergone castration because of cancer, there are artificial testicles of the same or a similar material. Artificial breasts are now made of a soft silicone-rubber sack that holds a silicone gel, and they have a backing of Dacron for attachment to the chest wall...
Atlanta's Dr. John R. Lewis Jr. reported good results and a minimum of side effects with a combination kit introduced last year by Dr. Thomas D. Cronin of Houston. It consists of a Silastic (silicone plastic) bag filled with Silastic gel and attached to a backing of Dacron mesh. The viscous gel has more nearly the consistency of natural breast tissue than previous synthetics...
Since man can live only about 36 hours without liver function, and three of the Denver patients lived longer than that, it is clear that the transplanted organs have worked. So did Joseph Bin-gel's, for eleven days. Then he died...
...York. Ready for the tables were 680 handmade, solid-wax candles with a five-hour burning capacity. In the Waldorf kitchens, the staff was preparing 1,800 small brook trout raised specifically in a Long Island hatchery for the appetizer: Truite de Rivière en Gelée à la Muguette. In the ballroom, a team of theater directors and producers rehearsed spotlighting cues for introduction of guests until 6:30 a.m. Monday. Last-minute acceptances and cancellations kept the seating plan in a state of flux until just before the dinner began. But when the 1,668 guests...