Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the most impressive facet of the show, aside from its general high spirits, is the superlative choreography of Bob Fosse. Particularly impressive are the routines "Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo." and "Who's Got the Pain?" The lyrics and music are gay and spritely, never flat and sometimes very winning. "You Gotta Have Heart" and "Two Lost Souls" are the most appealing products of Messrs. Adler and Ross's song-smithing. The singing is generally good and Gary Cockell, Howard Krieger, and Roger Franklin's raucous rendition of "You Gotta Have Heart" brings down the house...
...pure abstractionists" whose work was accepted for exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, I am deeply honored to be included in Cartoonist Al Capp's "small group of the unbalanced," etc., which has given him so much pain [Feb. 18]. In the loneliness of my basement studio I am eternally grateful that I have never degraded my talent or my conscience nor sold my soul-for a bowl of mud-mushrooms...
...Using injections of absolute alcohol near the spine, Dr. William S. Derrick has successfully cut the pain of 82 of 87 cancer patients at the University of Texas' M. D. Anderson Hospital. By blocking a section of the sensory nerve running from the affected part of the body to the brain -a tested technique-the injections relieve pain for up to six months, can easily be given again if the nerve returns to life. Advantage over narcotics: the injection is non-habit-forming, does not wear off quickly. Advantage over surgery sometimes performed to kill pain by cutting...
...handicapped by the loss of speech may express themselves through a book called Silent Spokesman, by Wayland W. Lessing, a Chicago welfare worker. By pointing at the book's pictures and diagrams a patient can flash, among other messages, what friends he wants to see, where he has pain, and such complicated thoughts as: "I want a 21-inch television set." Cost of the book...
Reddish and only ¼in. long, the fire ant has a peculiar talent: it chews a slit in the skin of its victim, lifts the skin with its mandibles, curves its abdomen under its body and injects a dose of fluid which causes fiery pain, raises angry welts, and may form a pocket of pus. Victims highly sensitive to ant poison may be hospitalized for weeks; a baby in New Orleans was killed by the ants...