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...tribes to marshland, over close-ups of aged Indian faces. One man appears to be dying, or trying to sleep, turning his head back and forth over the industrialized landscape; the image exudes an eery sense of ancestors' graves plowed under, of the young dead and the old too infirm to protest. Gershfield then moves back to the negative-positive strobe; only much faster now-the beaten faces seem to be illuminated by antiaircraft fire or shells bursting all around them. One strange close-up even suggests a Vietnamese. A funeral ceremony in stills appears to draw the film...
...Britain, health officials stubbornly refused to call the outbreak an epidemic. Nonetheless, 1,500,000 workers reported sick, and hospitals in a score of cities closed their doors against all but emergency admissions. Mortality figures rose steadily; although influenza rarely causes death directly, it kills the infirm aged and very young by secondary diseases such as pulmonary ailments. Except for these complications, antibiotics are useless. Nevertheless, in Britain as elsewhere, there was a widespread demand for them and for even less effective drugs. Vaccination, at this late stage of a continent-wide epidemic, will be wasted on many people...
According to official Bonn estimates, there are 10,000 to 16,000 undetected war criminals at large in West Germany. Those who have not been caught by 1980 under the new extension will almost assuredly be dead of old age or too infirm to stand trial in any case...
Tennessee Williams is lying on the sickbed of his formidable talent. Ever since The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, his work has become increasingly infirm - so gravely so that In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel seems more deserving of a coroner's report than a review. Nonetheless, trust in the eventual recovery of America's greatest living dramatist must be retained, even if it resembles St. Paul's definition of faith: "The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen...
Camel back Effect. As a result, many physicians believe that HK-68 is especially threatening to young, healthy adults. In most epidemics, only the aged, the infirm or the ailing young develop pneumonia as a result of direct infection of the lungs with flu virus. Others may develop a "secondary" bacterial pneumonia because their systems have been weakened by flu. By contrast, this winter more young men and women have gone rapidly from influenza to influenzal pneumonia. Some victims get out of bed after about with the flu only to be hit by a second round. According...