Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begun on the movie when Liz took sick last fall.) "Shaw's life," Mankiewicz explained, "is full of letters to naive young girls, instructing them in the ways of the world. He wrote Caesar and Cleopatra as if he'd come upon Cleopatra himself in that pile of rocks. The play is a Shavian dream of intellectual omnipotence, but it has nothing to do with Caesar or Cleopatra...
After his Wednesday blood cleansing (technically, a "dialysis"), Ben feels fine until about Sunday. But he passes so little urine that the poisons pile up. He drags around on Monday and Tuesday, can't wait for the day on the machine...
Because Ben A. had about one-fortieth the normal kidney function, or roughly half what is needed to maintain life, he could let the poisons pile up in his blood for a few days. Surgeon David Dillard opened an artery and a vein in Ben's left arm and implanted a plastic tube in each. He brought the ends of the tubes out over the forearm, hooked them together to form a bypass that let the blood flow through freely, to prevent clotting. When the small skin wounds healed, physicians connected the tubes to the artificial kidney. This filtered...
...student panel, a representative from Princeton in a four-piece suit distinguished himself by reading from a staggering pile of books nearly all the world's literature on leisure. Emma Liewellyn of the Sarah Lawrence faculty was so alarmed at two panel members who said, "I don't have time for leisure," and "I feel guilty when I'm not working," that she accused them of being "little machines" and suggested bird-watching...
...role is pantomime, and must be choreographed for the benefit of lighting technicians and carpenters. Kelly will lead him through part of it ("You're walking down a street, you see a little girl, you see a bird"). Then the partners, with Gleason still in costume, pile into Jackie's turquoise and Burgundy Rolls (bar, phone, TV, refrigerator, stereo hi fi, air conditioning) and hunt photogenic cemeteries because Gigot is supposed to love funerals...