Word: lungfuls
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Puopolo’s heart was perforated in two places and one lung was punctured; by the time he arrived at the hospital just minutes later, his heart had stopped and doctors feared that his brain had already become irreparably damaged...
...preliminary but promising finding in lung cancer, doctors discovered that a special form of vitamin A might reverse some of the changes in lung tissue caused by smoking. In a small study, former smokers who took the vitamin A derivative produced higher levels of a protein thought to be important in suppressing tumor growth than ex-smokers who took a placebo...
DIED. SIHUNG LUNG, 72, Taiwanese actor who played key roles in director Ang Lee's best-known films, including last year's Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (he was Sir Te, the sage court official who receives the 400-year-old sword); of liver failure; in Taipei...
...host a TV special filled with outtakes from your old CBS comedy series and knock 'em dead in the ratings. It's quite another to try a new career as a playwright. But that's what Carol Burnett has done. She and daughter Carrie Hamilton (who died of lung cancer in January) collaborated on Hollywood Arms, a play based on Burnett's memoir, One More Time. Hamilton worked nearly till the end; she was viewing actors' audition tapes until just weeks before her death. But Mom had to finish alone. The play opened in Chicago last week to mixed reviews...
...silver screen, LUNG SIHUNG was everyone's favorite father figure. The Taiwanese actor played them all?the Tai Chi father, the chef father, father of a gay son, father of a woman warrior. His roles came to personify the Eastern patriarch caught in the winds of change sweeping the lives of his children. His careworn appearance was a factor in his fame. I originally wanted him in my productions because he had a face ethnic Chinese could identify with. But the reason Ang Lee and I cast Lung in the "Father Knows Best" trilogy?Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet...