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...story but also bringing special insight. Playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick (In & Out, Addams Family Values) stirred up a refreshing appraisal of the iconic appeal of Marilyn Monroe, focusing on the legacy of her celluloid image instead of the tabloid conspiracies that crowd her persona. The jazz singer Diane Schuur made poignant connections between her own blindness and that of Helen Keller. Rita Dove, America's former poet laureate, produced a tightly woven mini-epic in prose of the moment of Rosa Parks' apotheosis from unprepossessing Montgomery, Ala., matron to unshakable icon of the civil rights movement. Collaborating with staff...
...Diane Schuur's latest jazz CD is Music Is My Life from Atlantic Records
...clergymen, headed down Kromboom Road toward the prison. The police charged the procession, forcing the marchers to break and run. A group of clergymen and nuns refused to leave the scene and were arrested. Students at the University of Cape Town tried to march on the nearby Groote Schuur estate, which contains the official residence of President Botha, but they too were turned back. Later in the day, when it was clear that the march in Cape Town could not succeed, Boesak's wife Dorothy appeared at a press conference and read from a scroll that the demonstrators had hoped...
...patient was Ivan Taylor, 58, an engineer who entered Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital early in November. "He was in a hell of a mess," says Barnard. "Absolutely a desperate man." The problem was that the patient's heart was not all of a piece. Of its two heavy-duty pumping chambers, the right ventricle was strong and driving blood efficiently to the lungs; it was the left ventricle, which propels oxygenated blood to the arterial system, that was diseased and failing. Christiaan and his surgeon brother Marius decided that what Taylor needed was an assistant left...
...hesitation about attempting the surgical spectacular last month. His patient, Adrian Herbert, 49, was near death from emphysema, and Barnard felt that the operation offered the only chance for survival (TIME, Aug. 9). Last week, 23 days after the operation, Herbert died at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital...