Word: pelvic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alexander Brunschwig of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital has literally disemboweled hundreds of patients during the past 17 years. In almost every case, the list of organs he has removed would seem to be a surely lethal loss. But Brunschwig's viscerations - or pelvic exenterations, as surgeons prefer to call the incredibly drastic operations -have been a startlingly successful effort to save lives after all hope was gone...
...like you to check my motor." Once her motor turns over, it seldom stops. Neither does the movie, mostly because Ann-Margret-whose scanty wardrobe suggests that she draws her energy directly from the sun-gyrates with a stem-to-stern fury that makes Presley's pelvic r.p.m.s seem powered by a flashlight battery. Ann-Margret isn't worried about his sacrum, she is afraid he'll break his neck in the Grand Pree. But no. They enter a talent contest and tie for first prize-a prepaid honeymoon in Las Vegas. Since they are already there...
...same technique to hunt for different targets. With pulses of "sound" far too high for human hearing, they are locating tumors that must be cut out, livers that must be treated for cirrhosis, babies' heads that are too big to pass through the mother's pelvic arch, even fast-beating heart-valve leaflets that need to be repaired...
...spent three months in Mt. Auburn Hospital and one in Stillman Infirmary recovering from a pelvic fracture and various complications. She took the rest of the year off to recuperate, and returned to Radcliffe as a freshman this fall...
...most Graham ballets, but she tempers her preachments with ironic wit and a healthy interest in all circumstances that cause the hips to quiver. Her choreography is full of strangely natural distortions of movements from life-leaps and spread-eagle stretches, fluttering fingers, crawls, great sweeps of outstretched legs, pelvic rolls and caresses.* Her open-air approach to sex makes her company more masculine than most-though the soft little scrimmage in her new Secular Games manages to make even her strong male dancers look disturbingly dainty...