Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first clue is often the catastrophe itself: a fatal heart attack. But the events that set the stage for disaster, like those preceding an earthquake, have been occurring for years beneath the surface, painless and unnoticed. The culprit is silent ischemia, an intermittent interruption of blood flow to the heart, which kills tens of thousands of seemingly healthy Americans each year. Doctors estimate that the condition, undetected, exists in an additional 3 million to 4 million people known to have heart disease and further increases the likelihood they will suffer a heart attack...
...Although silent ischemia was identified nearly two decades ago, the attention it received at last week's annual scientific meeting of the American Heart Association in Dallas reflected a growing awareness that it is a formidable medical problem. Says Cardiologist William Shell, of the University of California, Los Angeles: "It may be silent, but it can be deadly...
...talent, the young adult similarly searches for love and happiness. Like Philip, Leavitt frequently lacks perspective. Still, the parallel somehow makes the excesses of the author and his protagonist a bit more tolerable. Writing, like romance, works best when the participants are mature, confident, and know when to be silent. Both David Leavitt and his main character are still maturing...
...during the influenza epidemic that swept through Britain in World War I. "My dad always called himself not a pianist but a pianoplayer," Ellen recalls. "Pianoplayer gives you the idea of him and the instrument being like all one thing, jammed together." Billy makes his way by accompanying the silent films at a Manchester movie house during the mid-1920s. Unfortunately, he possesses not only an artistic temperament that rebels at the exigencies of routine but also a taste for booze. One night, well liquored, he improvises a score for a film about the life of Christ and plays...
Lynch orders a beer. He stands behind the men seated at the bar. They comment to one another, but not to Lynch, on the unfolding action on TV. Lynch is silent. He shifts the weight on his tender knees. Finally, he walks over to a table and sits down, his stiff leg protruding into the aisle. He nurses his beer while lost in the game. He leans toward the action, elbows on knees, and looks for things his contemporaries are oblivious to. He smiles every now and then at a comment by Summerall, as if Summerall had missed the point...