Word: livered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paul) developed a simpler sound you could duplicate night after night, show after show: short songs, no jazz, no instrumentals, with the melody locked up in the jumpy bass lines. Eric, the singer, started singing as if his lungs were being torn from his body and his liver ripped apart by vultures every time the two-line choruses began. Cruella is therefore one of the year's most emotionally wrenching rock records, if you can get used to the singing; the whole package reminds me of DC's primal post-hardcore band Rites of Spring, whose singer used to break...
...moments of the movie come in the final scene, when many years later, as a kind of epilogue, the much-aged Newland and his grown-up son travel to Paris, and have a date to take tea with the Countess. Having been treated to Newland's grayed locks and liver-spotted face, one is absolutely dying to see how the Countess has held up under the weight of the years. One is foiled. Thus it is throughout: the film continually promises high drama, but high drama consistently fails to materialize...
...Hospital in Philadelphia. As tears began to well, the Lakebergs made plaster imprints of the tiny hands of their daughters Amy and Angela, then picked them up and hugged and kissed them. Born seven weeks ago, the girls were Siamese twins, joined breast to belly, with a fused liver and a shared heart. As they cuddled the girls, Reitha, 24, and Ken, 26, knew that they would not see Amy, "the ornery one," alive again. Her fingernails had been left bare while her sister's had been painted pink by nurses to help doctors easily distinguish the girls. For surgeons...
Doctors soon discovered that even their earlier guarded prognosis had been overly optimistic. The infants' fused liver could be divided, but the twins had one heart. Even worse, it had six chambers instead of the normal four, with a hole in one chamber and blood from the lungs pumping into the wrong side. The doctors recommended to the Lakebergs that Amy and Angela be allowed to die. "We sort of pleaded with them to take the babies off the ventilator," says neonatologist Dr. Jonathan Muraskas at Loyola University Medical Center in suburban Chicago, who tended the twins from their birth...
When the operation finally began, a team of 18 doctors was on hand. First the surgeons divided the twins' liver. Then they began the daunting task of reconstructing the heart. Amy died about two-thirds of the way through the surgery. Mercifully, Reitha and Ken had been spared a Sophie's Choice of selecting which of their offspring would die. Doctors made the decision strictly on medical grounds -- which twin had the stronger chance...