Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sawed his preaching into visual parables. He paints op art murals that change their spots entirely when the viewer passes by, makes wall constructions whose pieces may be rearranged like bits of hardware in a pegboard, or, mounted on springs, rummaged through as if they were bouquets of clanking metal flowers. He also composes bit-by-bit musical moments that sound like timbrels and woodwinds fumbling randomly up and down a sadly keyed scale. Agam likes to keep things moving...
Laymen have always been inclined to regard a bullet or a metal fragment in the heart as a sentence of death. And until World War I, most surgeons agreed. Sometimes they could remove the offending object and the patient would live-but the operations were often as deadly as the fragments. Now a 20-year follow-up of World War II injuries shows that, despite all surgery's advances, in many cases it is still better to leave a bullet in the heart...
...good rule to leave a foreign body alone unless the heart continues to rebel against its presence, report Dr. Edward F. Bland of Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Gilbert W. Beebe of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. The heart usually accommodates itself to any hunk of metal that does not interfere with the working of a valve...
...while hunting rabbits. A .22-cal. bullet entered his chest but was removed, and he made such a good recovery that at 18 he was inducted into the Army and fought in Tunisia. Under combat stress, he developed chest pains, and X rays revealed 13 metallic fragments in his chest, three within the heart wall itself. Without surgery, he recovered enough to fight in France and win a Silver Star. Now he works full time as a house painter. The metal fragments that he still harbors are, it appears, parts of the zipper on his hunting shirt that were propelled...
...troops entering captured Viet Cong camps have found entrenchments enforced with American steel plates, homemade mortars fashioned from U.S.-made steel pipe. Recently, a new metal-working lathe, imported under the AID plan, was found buried under manure aboard a Viet Cong sampan. Precious American antibiotics, on sale at hundreds of Saigon pharmacies legally stocked with U.S. medicine, are easily spirited out to Communist forces, often in loaves of French bread or hollowed-out cabbage heads...