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Center stage right now in history's longest running show is Lady Diana, who entered as an ingénue and was already a star before she got to the footlights. She not only stood up well to the glare, she turned it to good advantage. Hounded by an anxious press, she usually managed to hold her temper and fix her smile. "I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them," she told Charles with a level coolness that seemed to be much older than 19. "I simply treat the press as though...
...kept on; nurses and doctors move about constantly, checking vital signs and taking blood samples; monitors hooked up to patients beep incessantly. Reagan was given antibiotics to combat possible infections and pain medication to ease his moderate discomfort, more the result of the operation than the bullet injury. Dur ing the night, doctors removed the wind pipe tube that had been left in place after surgery to facilitate breathing...
...rate of 70 and blood pressure of 130/80, numbers that would please a healthy man. He was encouraged to cough to help get secretions out of his lungs. Though breathing hurt, he required little pain medication. He continued to receive oxygen through a nose catheter. White House aides visit ing that morning found Reagan sitting up and brushing his teeth. He spent the day sleeping and reading newspapers; meals were soup and gelatin. The next day he switched to solid foods and walked a few steps. Toward the end of the week he was walking down the hospital corridor...
Though Reagan seems to be progress ing nicely, controversy continues over the seriousness of his condition when he entered George Washington University Hospital. Some witnesses paint a grim pic ture: the President was stumbling, gasp ing for air, blood stained his teeth and lips, and most serious, his blood pressure was very low, a sign of impending shock...
...transport of religious feeling, and one proof that he was right lies in the history of taste. In recent years, artists' reputations once thought to be buried for ever have been summoned to their resurrection by art-historical revisionism and the demands of the art market. Brandish ing their wormy palettes, these venerable shades mock the belief in linear progress that was once a byword of modernism. If anyone in 1960 had dared suggest that dozens of moldering eminences from the salons and academies of preimpressionist France, forgotten men like Jean-Pierre Alexandre Antigna, Frangois Bonvin, Joseph Bail...