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...nagging back, then his shoulder, then his wrist. Pepper-Pot Second Baseman Jerry Remy fractured his wrist last month, and is still playing with it taped. Dwight Evans was hit by a pitch and gets dizzy chasing fly balls. Add to that Catcher Carlton Fisk's broken rib, First Baseman George Scott's battered right middle finger. Third Baseman Butch Hobson's injured elbow and Centerfielder Fred Lynn's pulled stomach muscle, and you get a team that might be better off playing softball for Massachusetts General Hospital. Only this season's sensation, Jim Rice...
...depressed and ashamed. You long for Laren Bacall's cool, (oh, so cool) figure, lighting a cigarette for Bogart under the bar with one swish movement, finally winning his affection in To Have and Have Not through pure, unadulterated strength (remember that word?). Or Katherine Hepburn in Adam's Rib carrying out a masterful delivery on the plight of abused wives to a jury which her defendant, against Spencer Tracy's efforts to convict her for shooting her husband...
...Adam's Rib and Woman of the Year-Of all the Tracy-Hepburn films, these two are probably the best. What is there to say about the greatest couple ever to hit the silver screen? If you haven't seen it, go, although if you wait long enough you'll see them on the Late Show one night. Hepburn as a career woman and Tracy as her jealous, decidedly unliberated husband are not to be missed...
Brattle Theater - Brattle St. - Adam's Rib, 5:45, 9:40. Woman of the Year...
Though surprisingly little is known about the spleen, a small organ located beneath the left rib cage, it has at least one important function: filtering bacteria and foreign material from the blood. That function makes the spleen particularly important in warding off serious bacterial infections and meningitis in children, who have not yet developed immunity to certain microorganisms. Yet doctors have long been puzzled by the fact that such infections, relatively common in children whose spleens have been removed in the treatment of cancer or blood disease, seldom show up in youngsters whose spleens have ruptured and then been removed...