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...David's older sister's cell type did not match his. In the past few years, however, new technology has made it possible to transplant imperfectly matched marrow, making obsolete the isolation approach to David's illness. "There will be no more bubbles," said Dr. William Shearer, the boy's physician. Last October David received 1⅔ oz. of his sister's treated marrow...
...host disease, which occurs when cells from donated marrow attack the recipient's body. During the next 15 days, David developed severe ulceration of his digestive tract and a dangerous accumulation of fluid in his lungs and around his heart. The exhausted child finally died of cardiac failure. Shearer recalled that at the end David asked, "Why don't we just pull out all these tubes and let me go home...
David's doctor, Immunologist William Shearer, is hopeful that his famous patient is not suffering a graft-vs.-host reaction. Instead, he suspects that the symptoms are the positive signs of "an incipient immune system beginning to develop in a child who had none." Blood tests already suggest that his sister's cells are taking hold. Says Shearer: "We expect to know in a month." Now that he has been exposed to the outside world, David will never return to the bubble. For the present, he remains quarantined, but his family may visit his room wearing surgical garb...
...government's recruiters (Jeff Goldblum and Harry Shearer) make Laurel and Hardy look like MacNeil and Lehrer, and the film makes Lyndon Johnson (Donald Moffat) look like Laurel or Hardy, take your pick. There he is in the back of his limousine, slamming his first together and muttering "darned housewife" when Annie Glenn refuses to see him: later he leeringly introduces fan-dancer Sally Rand; and during a film presentation with Eisenhower, Johnson sees the face of a Russian scientist and drawls. "Get that moron off of there," with the most extended moron this side of Gomer Pyle. Moffat...
...suppose, and you can't have Peter Allen chewing the ram-stag mutton and pretending to be a jackaroo. So they all talk either Ma Maison Irish or Rodeo Drive pommy. Not a trace of Strine from magpie to mopoke until Bryan Brown (who plays Luke, the shearer Meggie marries when she can't get her priest) looms up on the horizon, picking the damper crumbs from his Great Whites with a stringybark sapling. But he's the only dinkum specimen in it. The kids even call their mother Mom, which nobody outside America does...