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...hour-long documentary shows Clark's chest being cut open, the removal of his heart and the implanting of the artificial organ. Says Una Loy Clark, Barney's widow: "I feel that it is really not in the best of taste to show these things. It smacks of sensationalism." She wept openly at seeing what she called her "loved one's body being exposed and cut." Though they would like to have the film aired, officials of the University of Utah, KUED and the hospital all say they will abide by Mrs. Clark's wishes. Others...
...substitute double or sextuple entendre, as when Taylor says, "I feel rather scared of marriage really," looking out at the audience with the eyes of a wounded doe. What the Elyot-Amanda roles call for is the sort of fond nonchalance and glancing asperity that William Powell and Myrna Loy brought to Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man series. What Taylor's role model was for her part is undecipherable; it comes out as some sort of compromise between Mata Hari and Lady Macbeth. Inflection, which is paramount with a Coward line, is either beneath or beyond...
...however, Clark's rapid deterioration obviated such questions. Said Clark's surgeon, William DeVries: "It was essentially the death of the entire being except for the artificial heart." Shortly after 10 p.m. on Wednesday, having consulted with Clark's wife Una Loy, DeVries said, "This courageous man's heart was turned...
...done everything I wanted to do in life," he told Peg Miller. "Now if I can make a contribution, my life will count for something." If that meant dying on the operating table, he was prepared. Shortly before surgery, Clark reached for the hand of Una Loy, the high school sweetheart he had married 39 years earlier, and said, "Honey, in case I don't see you again, I just want you to know you've been a darned good wife...
Then late last month there was a sudden turnaround. Returning from a brief business trip, Berenson met Clark's wife Una Loy in the hospital corridor and was told, "Barney is great. He is a totally different person." Berenson quickly confirmed this for herself. "He started talking to me like I was a psychiatrist. It was a 20-minute monologue." Now, she said, Clark is "lucid and rational. He wants to participate in his recovery...