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...portraits that made his name in the 1970s never varied. First Close photographed the sitter, with a depth of field so short that there are blurs of focus in the distance from the eyeball to the tip of the nose, or from the edge of a Up to the lobe of the ear. Then he made color separations of the image and scaled it up to the giant canvas by means of a finely ruled grid. After that the image was transferred, square by square...
...through his wit and warmth, had become more of a joyous friend than a mere professional colleague. For five hours, surgeons working with the aid of a microscope performed a delicate craniotomy, lifting off the top of his skull to remove a significant portion of his right frontal brain lobe, which, among other functions, controls motor activity on the body's left side. When the operation was over, Brady was still alive and slowly regaining consciousness. Said his relieved surgeon, Dr. Arthur Kobrine...
...despite what doctors called "minimal but hopeful improvement" for Press Secretary James S. Brady, a substantive prognosis for the White House aide--who was shot through the forehead by a bullet that apparently exploded in the right lobe of his brain--may not become apparent for a year...
...process is less painful now because nurses take the blood sample from the ear lobe which is almost devoid of nerve endings, instead of from the sensitive finger...
With all due respect to Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, may I take the liberty of amending his quote to "nothing disastrous appears lobe happening." Changes are happening at the blink of an eyelash, too quickly for the human mind to perceive...