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...surprise, Menick got the ball again and ran straight up the gut. To everyone's surprise, he was practically untouched and ran cleanly for the last 10 yards into the endzone...
...Henry Rice operated at about 3 a.m. Monday, and what he saw wasn't good. "Maybe 95% of the bowel looked questionable," he says. "Sometimes you can remove the bad part, and he can fight off the infection. But this child's whole gut was involved." They stabilized him, able only to watch him over the next few hours, hoping for some improvement...
...prelude to transplant is brutal, however. The children receive near lethal doses of radiation and chemotherapy that kill the rapidly dividing sick cells. This leaves the patients without any immune system, so the most minor infection could kill them. It also kills the cells lining the gut, making digestion difficult, and those lining the mouth, producing painful sores...
...singer's 1937 death is peripheral to the main plot which centers around a bigoted white nurse (Marie Larkin), her "liberal-thinking" doctor boyfriend (Gavin Barbour) and the hospital's black orderly (Gut Bushfan). In an attempt to maintain universality, the characters are nameless, and yet they are too textured to be archetypal. The nurse wields as much authority as she can, threatening to have both the orderly--who is more educated than she--as well as the doctor who is always standing up for "them nigger," fired...
...film's steady injection of 1958's versionof deviant sex, drug use and rock and roll furtherprovokes the dirty feelings of disgust. Thesethreats to the blissful uniformity of Americanpost-war culture, being perhaps more immediate tothe general audience, elicit the gut response thatthen highlights the more latent tension presentedby the fear of foreign infiltration. Welles, asboth actor and director, effectively uses thenational border to comment on the relationship ofindividual security to larger systems. As much aswe, especially as an American audience, would liketo believe in our absolute ability to choose weare often structured by our identification withsome cause or other...