Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the lower limbs to the heart. Effler began rapping out commands like a drill sergeant, initiating the procedure to shut down the patient's heart and turn its functions over to a heart-lung machine. Then, after stopping the still-beating heart with a split-second electric shock ("Juice!" he demanded), Effler began the operation that would save his patient's life-inserting pieces of vein cut from the leg to bypass two blocked coronary arteries, the heart muscle's principal source of blood...
...below and then above the obstruction. With the first graft in place, Effler repeats the procedure on the right coronary artery and checks to make sure that there is no leakage. This done, he disconnects the patient from the heart-lung machine, restarts the heart with a second electric shock and slips out of the operating room for a breather while an assistant cuts away the mammary artery. A few minutes later, Effler returns, implants that artery in the left ventricular wall and steps back so that his assistants can take over and close the wound...
...personal in such a way as to become a metaphor for the personal. Her book opens with the electrocution of the Rosenbergs; the newspapers are hungry for their execution. Esther imagines how it would be to be burnt up all along her nerves. In the asylum she is given shock treatments as cure for her insanity. "I'm stupid about executions." she says. In the way that the Vietnam war figures in Bergman's Persona, the Extermination figures in "Daddy." Her father was a German; she feels herself...
...past year, Nash appears to have undergone a striking metamorphosis. He has begun-and this may shock followers of Harvard rowing-to sound remarkably like Crimson coach Harry Parker, who has come to symbolize all that is modest and successful in the practice of his profession...
...film is worth seeing, both for its isolated insights into the life of an aging easy rider, whose crazing shock-treatment morality has outlived its initial impetus, and for the scenes which point to the possibility of a Pirandellian cinema. From his work here (Schiller credits him with organizing the individual scenes) and in David Holzman's Diary (in which he starred and improvised), Kit Carson seems to be heading towards a purified art, reordering basic human inter-actions with society and environment. The attitudes the film's subject expresses and the values it places on surrounding materials would determine...