Word: hernia
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...patient lost 96 lbs. in little more than a year, and his leg ulcer healed. Then he developed a hernia at the operation scar, so the surgeons went in again. Since his weight loss had been only moderate, they cut out a foot of jejunum. That did it. The clerical worker is now down to a merely rotund 165 lbs.; he is back at his office desk, able to tie his shoelaces, and happy as never before...
...discussions of art, Berenson was relentlessly dazzling: "Artistic creation, in relation to its creator, is like a hernia -it has the least possible zone of communication with his actual person." Furthermore: "We lack today, with our use of cement, any sense of resistance of material; and where the material does not resist there is no longer any art. Cement is like cardboard, giving way in any direction, and adaptable to every use. Art should break the bonds of material...
...comb. It is Silvo-Polish and elbow grease that keep the buttons blinding bright, treacle that caulks the bagpipe bags and keeps them from cracking. The shows are work too. One of the Scots Guards pipers blew so hard one night he had to be hospitalized with a suspected hernia, but gamely returned to action the next day's matinee-fitted out in a truss...
Doctors satisfied themselves that Lucy's hiccups were not a symptom of neurosis. Uremic poisoning, hiatus hernia and tumor irritation-all possible sources of chronic hiccups-were dismissed after examination. Next the diagnosticians studied Lucy's phrenic nerves, which control the spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm-in effect, the hiccup mechanism. X rays appeared to indicate irritability of the right phrenic nerve. Stopping that nerve from functioning seemed the only thing that might help...
Flipped Wigs. The spontaneity sometimes sounds a little studied-especially in his leads, which have a tendency to come on like a psychedelic one-man band. The beginning of his piece on Las Vegas, for example, consists of the word "hernia" repeated no fewer than 57 times. And if the 25 pages that follow jump and shimmer at times in their observations and their writing, they also suffer from prose that has a tendency to clot and baroque scrollwork similes that have a familiar look...