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...instead of a normal 250,000. Nurses hurriedly rounded up donors of the relatively rare B-negative blood type. The hectic search yielded 15 liters (about 32 pints) of blood necessary for an operation to excise the spleen: according to his Egyptian doctors, the organ had grown so bloated by midweek that there was a possibility it could burst in a fatal hemorrhage. The terse clinical diagnosis of New York Hospital's Dr. Benjamin Kean, who flew to Cairo on Wednesday to take part in the surgery: "He is not just sick, but very sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Special Patient in Suite 201 | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

SHOCK FOLLOWS SHOCK: Lydia follows "Mechanical Flattery" with "Gloomy Sunday," an organ-laden bit of doom straight out of Nico's Desertshore. Pat Irwin distinguishes herself on oboe by floating chromatic leads over the top, more than similar in style to Roxy Music's Andy Mackay. Lunch whispers her way through the materials, setting up gothic imagery much better than one might have imagined. In fact, the complete song is quite effective, not unlike reading one's first Roald Dahl story. The true thrust of the album is found in this crosscurrent of styles. Lydia Lunch definitely draws on these...

Author: By Scott J. Michaelsen, | Title: Dada for Lunch | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

Edgar Haber, professor of Medicine and an associate of MGH, said that an increase in the availability of hearts, a method of overcoming organ rejection and better mechanical ways for keeping people alive while they wait for hearts could lead to a reversal of the decision

Author: By Wendyl L. Wall, | Title: MGH Prohibits Transplant of Human Hearts | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...parking meters trying vainly to create tension, and hacks its way through a Gere/Hutton sex sequence. In one nice touch, though, the Gigolo voices have a stupid, vapid sound, a style of speech learned on the Venice boardwalk or a Malibu sundeck. But Schrader couldn't resist a Mozart organ opus as accompaniment for a mellow-dramatic finale...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Low Gear Tricks | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...contrast, the only warmth on London Calling comes from the Clash's idiosyncratic reggae tunes, songs of Kingston refracted by Brixton into an unruly, festive rainbow. They portray the down-and-out but proud, card cheats, gangsters and two-bit revolutionaries, using brass, piano, and organ to supplement the traditional guitar-bass-drums outfit...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Now War Is Declared | 2/1/1980 | See Source »

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