Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under hypnosis. But eventually he went into convulsions. "We worked all night," one of the doctors remembers. "We gave him transfusions one right after another. So many transfusions washed out the body's calcium balance, and we gave him injections of calcium. We gave him standard treatment for shock all night." Suddenly Fred started to recover. And as consciousness returned, his first words were: "If Dad had been here, this wouldn't have happened." At home, Fred now gets two units of plasma a day. But as he continues to improve, that dose will be lowered. The doctors...
Noisome chemicals and tear gas proved as repellent to the courier as to the cur. An electrified "shock stick" showed promise, but postmen preferred to use it as a club...
...nurses are more informal than their colleagues elsewhere in the hospital. Only a neat little name tag marks them as "staff.'' Patients are kept busy with psychotherapy (some of it in groups), occupational therapy and their own chores. Nearly all receive drug treatment, though few now get shock...
Sexual Fantasy. Bugaku opens on an empty stage suggestive of a court or an arena. The music begins with atonal violin glissandos so delicately feline that the sight of the first dancer coming on stage is a silent shock-like a slipper thrown at a cat. Five girls dance alone in a ritualistic largo, then five men replace them, moving with the elaborate logic of karate fighters. Each gesture is answered with architectural symmetry, each movement implies a countermovement...
This distillation of the gentleman's club tradition is carved on a stone slab in the floor of New York City's spanking-new Princeton Club. But some old grads attending the dedication ceremonies last week were in for a shock. The words apply only to the grill. In nearly every other of the 140-rooms, women's troubling is welcomed with open arms. For this nine-story building on 43rd Street may well be the mold and model of the club of the future-the "family club...