Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...massive brain hemorrhage and was taken to El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, only eight miles from Stanford. When her doctors said there was no hope, White asked whether there was any type of research going on relating to what had happened to his wife-"something where she could help...
...with his transplanted heart was former Dentist Philip Blaiberg in Cape Town, Dr. Barnard's second recipient. Eleven days after the operation, Blaiberg, 58, was sitting on the edge of his bed and swinging his legs like a schoolboy. This was not mere bravado, but was designed to help his circulation. He drank a "shandy" (beer and lemonade) and sang a Brahms lullaby...
...King Berenger learns in his last 90 minutes is an existential truism: one dies alone, with no quarter given and no help available. The only person who begs the king to cling to life is his succulently attractive second wife, young Queen Marie (Patricia Conolly). The pompous court physician is professionally adamant about the exactitude of his countdown to death, and the carping old crone (Eva Le Gallienne) who was the king's first wife adopts a get-on-with-it tone...
Primary Spark. Yet Mehta's motions are by no means shallow showmanship. They help make his performance "live all the time," in the words of Met Tenor Nicolai Gedda, who sings under Mehta in Carmen. Says Gedda: "He does not drag and he does not rush; he has the kind of pulse that is absolutely right." This is Mehta's essence as a musician: an instinct for the living pulse of a piece of music, along with a molten core of romantic feeling and a point-of-no-return commitment...
...Oxford Street store, 48 interpreters struggled to cope with the crush of Continentals snapping up fashion garments, bedding, appliances, children's and men's wear. British European Airways put on extra flights, and Air France switched from 90-seat Caravelles to 180-seat Boeing 707 jets to help carry the bargain hunters. Harrods, the elegant Knightsbridge store, experienced a run on "everything English"-Liberty prints, fabrics, scarves, china and glass. Said Managing Director Alfred Spence: "We have known nothing like it in 50 years. Sales...