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...have to remain vigilant. As added insurance against any recurrence of cancer, the Memorial team may offer him an experimental postoperative regimen of two new anticancer drugs, cis platinum and cytoxan. The objective: to kill any small clusters of cancerous cells that may have eluded the surgeon's scalpel...
Under the hot Arizona sun, the two bitter enemies circled each other like battling scorpions, stingers at the ready. Jabbed Representative John Conlan: "We are both conservatives, but our style is different. He uses a meat ax and I use a scalpel." Riposted Representative Sam Steiger: "John thinks of himself as a scalpel. I prefer to think of him as a Roto-Rooter." So it went in perhaps the year's most vicious political contest, the fight for the Arizona Republican nomination to succeed retiring G.O.P. Senator Paul Fannin. Last week that contest ended when Steiger, by a margin...
...Reeling, then, we get another look at the source of all this controversy. And in most of the reviews (she picks up from her last book in 1972), the magic touch is all there. Her sensibility works like a scalpel, and she pulls off fascinating dissections of a series of good-but-not-great films. Tackling the incomplete aftertaste left by respectable films like Sleeper, Lacombe, Lucien and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, she wrestles her feelings down with words. She won't let go until she's pinned down the fine distinctions, until she's exposed...
...startlingly candid behind-the-scenes account of his surgical apprenticeship at New York's Bellevue Hospital, and other popular books. Not one to miss an opportunity to publish, the articulate Litchfield, Minn., surgeon has now made the most of his unfamiliar position at the other end of the scalpel. In a new book titled Surgeon Under the Knife (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; $8.95), Nolen tells an exciting life-and-death story-his own-and also provides useful insights that should help less informed surgery patients...
Spirit's Scalpel. Some clergymen object strenuously to Stapleton's ministry on the ground that there is no biblical basis for her technique or that she is practicing psychotherapy without a license. Most psychiatrists seem to be unaware of her work, although she offers a version of her standard workshop for secular therapists. To critics, she insists that it is legitimate to probe into "the subconscious depths with the scalpel of the Holy Spirit...