Word: icebag
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...Peachum still has higher things on his mind: existential dread, for instance. "When they brought the news to me that another bunch at Oxford had scrapped Causality, I stretched out with an icebag on my head. Then it was all random. Certainty was a gone goose, and the soul with it. The soul was a clinker, cold as the meteorites that fell on Toulouse, Knyahinya and, if memory served, Pultusk and Mocs. Man has no purpose...
...ground. Some business firms became nervous and balked. Claes Oldenburg's collaboration with Disneyland began with his intense curiosity about "what people who have been making animals without genitalia for 30 years are like," and ended with Disneyland abandoning his project for a giant, hydraulically operated icebag...
Oldenburg, it was feared, might impair the playland's image as "a family-oriented operation." Fortunately, the Gemini company (TIME, Jan. 18) stepped in to sponsor the icebag. Puffing and rearing to its full 18-ft. height like some cross between Mount Fuji, a tomato and a dinosaur, it has turned out to be one of the key works in Oldenburg's brilliant career...
...doctors and their followers progressed to using icebag anesthesia on blood clots, burns, various injuries. The results they got were "phenomenal." In one case, a patient's hand, which had been crushed to a pulp and would ordinarily have been amputated, was miraculously restored. In another case, a patient's finger was almost cut off. Packed in ice until the doctor got there, the finger was successfully sewed back...
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