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...remember, but was vexed by what seemed to be bursitis. Burton, 55, missed only one of 319 performances on a cross-country tour that ended in Los Angeles. But in March he was forced to leave the show. His doctors diagnosed his illness as a degeneration of the cervical spine, and said the pain was "like the exposed nerve in a tooth multiplied by ten." As he had done in 1967, when the film version of Camelot was made, Burton relinquished his throne to Irishman Richard Harris. Last week Burton successfully underwent an operation to halt his spinal degeneration...
...letter embarrassed the government. The Defense Ministry called the statement "spine-chilling and depressing," and Calvo-Sotelo even summoned the papal nuncio, Archbishop Antonio Innocenti, to enlist his aid in silencing the bishops. Innocenti declined. Although the letter accurately reflected widespread fears in Spain, it contradicted the image of calm, steady helmsmanship that Calvo-Sotelo has sought to project since the attempted coup. But the army's brooding presence is undeniable-and, in at least temporarily stifling political debate, it may have lengthened Calvo-Sotelo's lease on office...
Horror buffs rarely debate metaphysics; they want a director to deliver the chills-down-your-spine, heart-in-your-throat, you-can't-watch-but-you-daren't-leave goods. Cronenberg delivers. When the body of one of his characters turns on its owner, it does so with a sanguinary vengeance. In Scanners, the Force flings men against walls, drives them to shotgun suicide, creeps inside their muscles and works its way out. This last special effect is a gloss of the sequence in Altered States in which William Hurt's face and arms assumed grotesque simian...
...supremely elegant but lacks the sonorous grandeur that audiences have come to admire in a Piatigorsky or a Rostropovich. Some might attribute this to the French tradition of string playing, but it may also be due to a congenital curvature of Ma's spine. Complex surgery last spring corrected the condition...
...about 20 million operations are performed in the U.S. Though surgeons claim that at most only 1% of these are unnecessary, some observers put the figure at more than 15%. Among the procedures said to be the most overdone: hysterectomies, tonsillectomies, gall bladder removals and operations on the the spine. To cut down on excessive use of the scalpel and, not incidentally, soaring medical-care costs, in the past few years federal agencies and insurance companies have been urging patients to get an independent second opinion whenever nonemergency surgery is recommended. Now comes the surprising suggestion that second opinions...