Word: organ
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like some fabulous beast howling in the collective unconscious of Western civilization. Heard live, it shakes, it roars and it rattles the fundament, compelling the listener to confront unspoken fears; even on compact disc, the force is still with it. And all courtesy of a mild- mannered French church-organ player who liked nothing better than to walk in the woods and listen to the birds...
...though not as massive as St. Peter's, thischurch seats a huge congregation, boasts athunderous organ and requires an elevator to reachits chapel...
...nature intended, the sheer number of pollen grains -- the botanical bearers of sperm -- ensured that at least some would reach and adhere to their natural goal: the stigma, a moist and sticky receptor of the female organ of the flower. That would start a fertilization process eventually resulting in seed and the propagation of the species. As a result of one of nature's oversights, however, many of the pollen grains reached another moist and sticky target first: a human eye or the mucous membranes of a nose or bronchial tube, where they set off a chain of events with...
Camille Saint-Saens' Symphony #3 (with organ), Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Charles Dutoit...
Viewing the image on a TV screen in his dimly lighted office three states away, Dr. David Forsberg noticed that something was wrong. "You could see a / rupture in the integrity of the spleen." He immediately recommended surgery; her bleeding organ was removed and her life saved. "In the middle of the night, it's reassuring to know that you're bringing your patients the best care available," says Dr. Tony Kusek, a country doctor -- and teleradiology enthusiast -- in Albion...