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...normal amounts of food. First, surgeons "staple" the stomach with surgical tools so that it can't hold more than about an ounce of food. Eat more than five or six bites, and you will feel a sense of nausea. Then the doctors rearrange the small intestine, the organ that actually absorbs nutrients, so that about a third of it can no longer function normally. Patients must take supplements for the rest of their life to avoid serious nutritional deficiencies. The procedure can, in theory, be reversed, though doing so would require complex surgery and the lost weight would probably...
...ensemble’s second Brahms piece was accompanied by Elisabeth M. Remy ’95 on harp. Before the piece began, conductor Jameson Marvin remarked to the audience that an organ served as the piece’s original accompaniment, but, because of the lack of an organ on Friday night, a harp was deemed the most worthy replacement. Indeed, Remy did not disappoint with her effortless melodies, which provided a rich but not overpowering pairing with the voices of the chorus...
...surprise, perhaps, that his early works are as sadistic as a triple root canal. In The Past and the Punishments, a collection of Yu's short stories, a young girl is eviscerated by cannibals. Elsewhere in the anthology, a murderer is himself dissected by blas? organ harvesters. Yu meant to critique a Chinese society whose capacity for cruelty can still astonish, but even his avant-garde peers were a bit put off. "I can't imagine what kind of brutal tortures patients endured under his cruel steel pliers," the author Mo Yan once wrote...
This NYC instrumental bass-drum-organ trio delivers tunes just complex enough to be interesting and just simple enough to be good. 9:00 PM. $9; 18+. Middle East (Upstairs), 472 Mass...
...slow yet loud and angry tunes of Bongzilla lash at the country’s current marijuana laws in their third release, Gateway. Denmark-based On Trial, armed with their third album titled Blinded By The Sun, evoke the psychedelic 60s through the use of the organ and the sitar. 9:00 p.m. $9; 18+. The Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...