Word: lungful
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DIED. LUTHER ALLISON, 57, searing blues guitarist; of lung cancer; in Madison, Wis. Born on an Arkansas cotton plantation, he played with nearly every major blues figure in the past 30 years, keeping the music alive as rap and soul captured successive generations of black audiences. With the blues dying out at home, he eventually moved to the more reverential shores of France...
Suffering complications from lung cancer, Lucker died at Brigham and Women's Hospital...
...prove and, as he saw it, not much to live for. But when he died, he took a lot with him: the audience's considered belief that he, of all actors, was the attainable best of us. So his death last week, of a blood clot in the lung, provoked a surprisingly profound melancholy in his fans and friends. "I know he was elderly, and we had to expect it," says Doris Day, his co-star in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much, "but I still can't believe it. And I can't stand...
Artless, yes; the poem lacked the gift of making grief palpable, as Stewart had done with such searing poignancy in Vertigo. But the feelings were just as direct, honorable, crushing. Imagine his desolation when, in 1994, Gloria died, at 75, of lung cancer. With no hand to hold, no hair to stroke, no lovely, comforting figure to share his bed, Stewart was bereft and, for all his loving children and friends, alone. He stopped his ritual of going to the office to answer his fan mail. Says Lord Richard Attenborough, who appeared with Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix...
Maybe so, but friends and foes alike were quick to point out that her figures are anything but solid. The original trigger for Browner's proposal was a lawsuit brought by the American Lung Association. The suit accused the EPA of ignoring new scientific evidence showing that small particles in the air--bits of matter much tinier than the diameter of a human hair--are especially harmful to health. A federal judge ordered the agency to look at the evidence and, if the data warranted it, come up with new regulations...