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...malignancy as invisible and pervasive as the most swinish flu virus. As his vision aged, like rancid fruit, the malignancy crept closer to home. In They Came from Within, it was a small, snouty bug, transmitted from mouth to mouth during sex. In Rabid it was a bloodsucking organ that sprouts from the carrier's armpit. In The Brood and Scanners it is the mind itself, splitting the nuclear family and precipitating a psychic apocalypse...
Next day Chinese newspapers gave prominent play to Hu Yaobang's apparent new role as the man actually in charge of party affairs. The official Communist organ, the People's Daily, spoke of "democratic reforms" and the abolition of lifetime tenure in high office-which Hua had once been presumed to enjoy...
...Gary Cooper in A Farewell to Arms. As things got worse, film fantasy became more and more a handy escape; Red Headed Woman with Jean Harlow, Winner Take All with James Cagney and Horse Feathers with the Marx brothers. Once, the Dixon theater, which had a three-keyboard Barton organ, imported a popular radio entertainer, Gene Autry, for a stage appearance. But the town's 1932 movie year climaxed with the showing (at the shocking premium evening rates of 50? to $1.50) of Grand Hotel. The stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore. Now those...
...program suggests that the brain-death criteria, particularly in Britain, are not strict enough and intimates that a factor may be the need for healthy organs for transplants. To buttress the show's argument, the producers described the experiences of five American patients who were thought dead but who survived. Only one was ever considered as a possible organ donor. Two were women who had taken drug overdoses, one was a premature infant, another was a man paralyzed by a muscle-relaxing agent. The most sensational case was that of a man who lost consciousness after suffering a heart...
Meanwhile, the British public is frightened. London Photographer Sally Greenhill expressed a common reaction to the broadcast: "I immediately tore up my organ donor card." In the four weeks after the telecast, the number of kidney transplants fell by a quarter, but is now beginning to increase again. British doctors hope the public will finally be reassured in February, when they state their case in a special 90-minute program...