Word: lungfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fault is partly in the cumbrous plot. After a TV giveaway marriage, Myrtle (Lynn Redgrave) and Jeb (James Coburn) find themselves hostile strangers. Winded, impotent, pulling marijuana smoke into a cancerous lung, Jeb courts death instead of his bride. In a Louisiana mansion as corroded as he is, Jeb introduces Myrtle to his half-brother Chicken (Robert Hooks). From the newlyweds' point of view, Chicken has several drawbacks: he is surly, he is vengeful and he is black?"a mistake" claims Jeb, "of my father's." Like two halves of the same soul, the siblings are rivals for the property...
...only long-term survivor with another man's lung but with his own heart has been Alois Vereecken, a Belgian metalworker who lived ten months after a 1968 transplant. Edward Falk quickly regained consciousness, his new lungs took up their work of oxygenation, and at week's end his condition was described as good...
Died. General Tiburcio Canas Andino, 93, President of Honduras from 1933 to 1948 and stereotype Central American dictator; of a lung infection; in Tegucigalpa. Huge, mustachioed and of Indian descent, Andino was something of a popular hero when he was elected President in 1932. He did achieve a measure of political stability in an unstable country (116 Presidents in 108 years of independence) as well as some economic progress. But his hero image faded swiftly when he began ruling by fiat and filled the prisons with those who protested, all the while illegally extending his term. In 1949, he handed...