Word: heartbeating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line showing airflow through mouth and both nostrils drops to nothing. The heartbeat reading becomes erratic. Movement of chin and chest are spasmodic as the patient struggles to draw in air. Eye movement changes and nine channels of brain wave recordings take on the appearance of waking brain activity in the thin blue lines...
That Congressman watches the world through trifocals. He wears a pacemaker in his chest to quicken his heartbeat when it slows. One of his heart valves is synthetic; it replaced the natural one that developed a calcium deposit. He is nearly deaf without his hearing aids. A bulbous nose dominates his rumpled face, which looks forever melancholy even when its owner is not. He is 82 years...
...Euler, 78, groundbreaking Swedish physiologist who in the 1930s discovered prostaglandins, the remarkable hormones used in birth control pills, and who was co-winner of the 1970 Nobel Pri/e in Physiology for his work in detecting noradrenaline, a key neurotransmitter that controls such involuntary actions as the heartbeat and the body's response to stress; of arterial disease; in Stockholm. Von Euler's research led to the identification of a number of so-called transmitter substances, including polypeptides, which appear to be the agents that deliver messages of pain to the brain...
RECOVERING. Danny Kaye, 70, globe-trotting comic entertainer and good-will ambassador for UNICEF; after two weeks of hospitalization for chest pains and irregular heartbeat led to quadruple coronary-bypass surgery; in Los Angeles...
...music. Songwriting teams like Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil composed terrific teen anthems for the girl groups. Producers Phil Specter, Shadow Morton and Holland-Dozier-Holland encased the adenoidal voices in a cushion of strings, saxophones and heartbeat percussion. In those years before rock became Ph.D. fodder, the girl-group sound married musical sophistication and the saving emotional jolt. That sound retains its power and appeal. On record, at least, the dream girls are still beautiful...