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Taking the audience nearly by surprise, Bowie, looking about 20 years younger than he ought to, ran out suddenly on stage accompanied solely by an acoustic guitar around his neck. He launched into an old chestnut, "Quicksand," and as the audience roared their approval, the other musicians took the stage and entered the song on cue. Throughout the evening, Bowie drew largely on his impressive and extensive back catalog, and the crowd responded enthusiastically to new treatments of such classics as "The Man Who Sold the World," "Fashion" and "Under Pressure." Not until the sixth song did Bowie play...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Man Who Sold (Out) the World | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

...After the nurses gently unwind the temporary loose gauze twined around her head, neck and chest, the woman is anesthetized, a breathing tube is placed in her mouth, and her temperature and blood pressure are monitored. While surgeon Alain Polynice finds her blood pressure to be within normal bounds, he notes that her temperature is slightly lower than desired, calls engineering to ask that the room temperature be raised. Then he places a bubbled heat blanket between her legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO HELL AND BACK | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...surgical assistant begins washing the woman's left leg with a soapy solution, sterilizing it so that swatches of it can later be peeled away to graft onto her chest and neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO HELL AND BACK | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...Himel has moved his attention from the woman's chest to her neck and discovers that the acid has burned all the way through the dermis on the right side. He carefully slices away the damaged tissue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO HELL AND BACK | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...Having removed all the dead skin from the chest and neck, Himel holds the patient's left thigh taut while the surgical assistant uses an electric-powered device to peel away two foot-long strips of the epidermis and the upper part of the dermis from the woman's left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO HELL AND BACK | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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