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What do you do when your heart starts to bloat and sag? You could try to prop it up. That's the idea behind the CorCap Cardiac Support Device, a mesh wrap fashioned to fit like a support stocking around the heart to relieve the stress created when the organ becomes enlarged, usually from trying to compensate for damage caused by heart attacks, valve disorders or high blood pressure. In a study of 300 patients, the CorCap reportedly helped enlarged hearts return to a more normal size and shape. The cardiac support hose is still experimental, and implanting it involves...
...later, the bare format of an ID became an inspiration for his mature portrait style, one of the great aesthetic insights of the 20th century. It consisted of high-focus inspection of unsmiling faces against an arctic-white background. Under that light, the body capitulates. Every line and facial sag announces itself. He used that approach to photograph everyone from Abbie Hoffman to Rose Kennedy. But these pictures were not cruel. They were fearless, lucid and unsentimental. As a fashion photographer, Avedon took human vanity to heights even human vanity never dreamed of. As a portraitist, he brought...
...Scissor Sisters still have a few things to work on. The production is less than imaginative, and the album is heavily front-loaded; the last 20 minutes sag. The band generates so much goodwill, though, that it's hard to hold much against them. But they still don't get a pass on Supertramp. --By Josh Tyrangiel
Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 1947 to 1952. He negotiated the first contract that gave actors royalties for films but not for television work (a boon to his old friend Wasserman, who would run the largest TV production company). He also applied grease to the wheels of the anticommunist witch hunt. Reagan had been reflexively left-wing in the '30s and '40s. Edmund Morris, his authorized biographer, believes the story that Reagan had tried to join the Communist Party but was rejected on the grounds that he would be more valuable as a fellow...
...think that she’s due for an Oscar, and unless Shohreh Aghdashloo has starred in Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby and Repulsion, I don’t see much chance that Renee will be upset. Aghdashloo wasn’t even nominated for a SAG; this doesn’t make an Oscar win for her impossible—Marcia Gay Harden got no SAG nomination for Pollock and walked off with the Oscar—but it does make a victory for her further unlikely. If Aghdashloo wins, it’ll be a jaw-dropper...