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That he is. Decked out in the Guitar Suit, which he designed with Los Angeles Couturier Bill Witten out of a rubbery fabric called stretch laurex, Hartman simply inserts the bottom of his electric guitar into a pelvic pocket, much the way a mother kangaroo snuggles her baby into her pouch. From electrodes in the pocket, the signal is fed through wires sewed into the linings to a cigarette-pack-sized transmitter housed in a thigh pocket. Via an aerial laced down the right leg, the impulse is broadcast to the main amplifier backstage and then blasted into the auditorium...
...conditioning, says Levy, "reduces colds and other respiratory problems. People say they have fewer headaches and sleep sounder." It also-Masters and Johnson, please note -improves one's sex life. Sex? Well, explains Levy, "you have fewer tensions, you're relaxed, and you learn to isolate your pelvic muscles and control them...
...young Sacramento, Calif., housewife was understandably upset when her doctor told her that she would have to go into the hospital for a minor pelvic operation. She was afraid of surgery, nervous about the two children she would have to leave at home and concerned about the cost of her hospitalization. Instead of having her admitted the evening before surgery, as is customary, her physician asked her to report to Mercy General Hospital on the day of the operation. Once there, she was examined, given a sedative and wheeled into surgery. An hour later, she was in a recovery room...
...humor. Having refused to accept Herriot's expert diagnosis that his cow had a broken pelvis, one stubborn dalesman proceeded to apply an ancient cure used by his father ("A very clever man with stock was me dad"). The cow turned out to be suffering only from loose pelvic ligaments, which happened to cure themselves almost at the moment the useless home remedy was applied. For years thereafter-which the author would be well advised to cover in a sequel-the animal was triumphantly introduced far and wide by its owner as "the cow Mr. Herriot said would never...
Frankfort emphasized her belief that women are made to feel they are imposing on a doctor's time if they ask a lot of questions. "And how many women know what a doctor sees when he makes a pelvic examinations, or what he hears when he palpates your chest?" She asked...