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...with the first editions of almost anything, the opening installments of NewsHour were ragged. Admitted Executive Producer Lester Crystal, a former president of NBC News, "There is a great deal of smoothing out to be done." Among the snags: "mini-documentaries" on organ transplants and on the decline of a Kansas City stockyard seemed more like unedited slices of life than stories with news pegs, and "video postcards" of nature scenes and Americana reinforced the show's occasional aura of untimeliness...
...hour-long documentary shows Clark's chest being cut open, the removal of his heart and the implanting of the artificial organ. Says Una Loy Clark, Barney's widow: "I feel that it is really not in the best of taste to show these things. It smacks of sensationalism." She wept openly at seeing what she called her "loved one's body being exposed and cut." Though they would like to have the film aired, officials of the University of Utah, KUED and the hospital all say they will abide by Mrs. Clark's wishes. Others...
Dosojin began as a primitive fertility symbol, an expression of a people of the land who saw the highest affirmation of life in its potential for creation. So if these deities expose an organ of increase to a passerby, it is not to sling an obscenity but to bless him with the healthful prosperity of generation. That is why, at New Year's, the Nagano Dosojin festivals are children's celebrations, where new life honors the continuance of life. If the rest of the year children throw mud at the deity, or whip it with sticks, or urinate...
Opponents claim that the profitmaking hospitals "dump" poor or uninsured patients by sending them to the nearest public hospital. Critics also charge that they concentrate on such relatively simple yet expensive treatments as delivering babies and removing gall bladders, but leave less profitable procedures like organ transplants and cancer therapy to large teaching hospitals...
...even attempt such a synthesis speaks much about the music being produced today. As Rockwell writes, the barriers between the different worlds of music are breaking down, as is the media through which music reaches the public. Artists like Max Neuhaus--whose most well-known "work" is a sonorous organ sound which emerges from a Times Square grating--has redefined music, taking it out of the concert halls and making it a truly "popular" art form...