Word: scalpeled
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Playwright Macken acts Paddo with a good deal of skill. But instead of exploring Paddo with a scalpel, he merely keeps coming down on him like a sledge on an anvil, while his victims' endless denunciations swell matters into an anvil chorus...
...first time, of scraping it down to what Leonardo himself had painted. X rays are useless with frescoes, so no one knew quite what the result would be. but after bitter controversy, a brilliant restorer named Mauro Pelliccioli was commissioned to attack the picture with a surgeon's scalpel (TIME, May 4, 1953). The job took him three years and is now at last finished. The completely cleaned painting is reproduced, for the first time anywhere, on the following pages...
BUCCANEER SURGEON, by C. V. Jerry (309 pp.; Hanover House; $3.50). Sir Francis Drake's surgeon, who is as expert with a cutlass as with a scalpel, tangles with the enemy on the Spanish Main, escapes the Inquisition, falls into the arms of a sweet, cream-colored little savage and has a hell of a time getting away when she curdles. He has vowed never to stab a man in the back or rape a virgin, and despite almost irresistible temptation on both counts, he keeps his promise...
...quiet, scalpel-sharp way, Army Counsel Welch wanted to know why Juliana had not brought in the original picture, or an full blowup...
...pygmy is a traveling salesman named Fernand Ravinel who has the face of a brute and the soul of a sparrow. His mistress, Dr. Lucienne Mogard. is as cold and sharp as a scalpel. When they entice Ravinel's wife Mireille to Nantes, their object is murder and their motive is 2,000,000 francs of insurance money. As a killer, Ravinel proves tender and compassionate. After Mireille drinks a carefully prepared potion, her eyes close and Ravinel tearfully helps to lower her inert body into a bathtub full of water. "Don't worry, Mireille," he says...