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...adviser to the Shah, has acknowledged that the ex-monarch's spleen, which originally was said to be suddenly enlarged, had been in that condition for years. But the Shah's aides insist that the lymphoma is spreading, and so do his doctors. After studying a lymph node removed shortly after his arrival at the hospital, they announced that the cancer centered in the Shah's neck had grown. They recommended that the monarch, who has not sufficiently recovered from the removal of his gall bladder to undergo chemotherapy, begin a four-week course...
...Advertisements for Myself, Norman Mailer described how, with success, he became "a node in a new electronic landscape of celebrity, personality, and status. Other people, meeting me, could now unconsciously measure their own status by sensing how I reacted to them . . . Success had been a lobotomy to my past...
There is, of course, no question of working outdoors; each painting is a node of memory, a jumble of sense impressions recorded after the event in the studio and run through de Kooning's habitual signs. Some of his nudes, glimpsed on the beach, have lost the fearsome and iconic look of his famous series of Women; they are rose colored, billowy and amiable. The colors are of astounding brilliance. There can be few colorists alive today who can project, with a few judicious swipes, the same sense of wellbeing. Yet there are plenty of moments when the torrent...
...year follow-up revealed no differences in the rates of recurrence among the three groups. Whether a ten-year follow-up will show similar results remains to be seen; doctors have found that a clinical diagnosis of no lymph-node involvement is subsequently proved wrong in 38% of all cases...
...stands a little over five feet and usually comes wrapped in a clerical black suit and vest that sets off an honorary Phi Beta Kappa key. The head, or node receptor, as Fuller might call it, carries a hearing aid and glasses so thick they magnify his eyes. This figure has been around so long and has impinged on public awareness so many times, it sometimes seems that Fuller is constantly being discovered and forgotten...