Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surgery was fraught with danger. Years of cortisone therapy, DeVries pointed out, had made the fabric of Clark's heart so delicate that it tore "like tissue paper" during the operation. When the team, working to a recording of Ravel's Bolero, finally succeeded in replacing the organ with the mechanical device, said DeVries, "it was a spiritual experience for everyone in the room." But the new heart failed to pump properly, and a standby unit had to be substituted. Finally, after 7½ hr., Clark's heart output was normal, he had what was described...
DIED. Raymond Carlson, 76, editor of Arizona Highways magazine from 1938 to 1971, who transformed a house organ for road contractors into a beautifully produced showcase that attracted more than 400,000 subscribers from all 50 states and 110 foreign countries; in Scottsdale, Ariz...
...them breaks out briefly from the boundaries of place and station, he-and particularly she-is usually fated to come back. In Accident, the would-be musician Frances returns to Hanratty, after a spell at a conservatory, to direct a high school glee club and play the organ in a church on Sunday. When she falls in love with a married science teacher, they can find no better places to make love than on the floor of the science supply closet...
...been a hat-check clerk at an ice rink." She is onstage, a post-punk dream clad in black satin, electric-pink socks the only splash of color. "Which, in fact, he turned out to be." Her hair is short, spiky, capping a high-cheekboned, all-American visage. An organ chord swells in the background. "And I said, 'Oh boy. Right again. Let x equal x.' " Behind her, a small rock band plays softly. "It's a sky-blue sky," she says. "Satellites are out tonight. Let x equal...
...Life Is Good, Newman slings an arm over the shoulder of his "very good friend . . . Mr. Bruce Springsteen." In Take Me Back, a lively rave-up propelled by a roadhouse-style Farfisa organ, he chronicles how a life of early promise guttered and ended "by this dirty old airport/ In this greasy little shack." Randy Newman may live far from that kind of address-in Santa Monica, Calif., in fact, with a wife and three sons-but his imagination still dwells in the long shadows. Says his brother Alan: "Randy looks at the world from the underside...