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...four hours Neurosurgeon Paul Pitlyk and Orthopedist Kenneth Spence worked on the prone patient's cervical spine. They cut under the spinal cord, removed the tooth-shaped projection that hooks the second vertebra into the first just below the skull, and then deliberately fractured the two vertebrae...
...lotus' size made balance precarious, and its tenderness made walking painful. The withering of the foot caused a withering of the calf and sometimes dangerously distorted the curve of the spine and the position of vital organs. The Chinese believed, however, that by shifting muscular strain from the lower leg to the hip region, the process considerably increased the size of a woman's thighs and buttocks and permanently strengthened the pelvic muscles, alterations much appreciated by Chinese...
Literature was conscious of no loss when Britain's Denton Welch died in 1948 at the age of 33. A gaunt, gifted art student, he had been invalided at 20 when a motorist crashed into his bicycle, fracturing his spine. Often unable to paint, scarcely able to walk, he took up his pen and wrote two books of stories, two fictionalized autobiographies of boyhood, a lengthy journal and this brilliant, terrible novel. Published in England in 1950, it received scant attention; but critics have recently recognized Welch's memoir as a minor masterpiece, and it has now been...
...progresses. Babe has wisely chosen to have his actors underplay, forcing them to perform with self-discipline. The acting is amazing, considering that four of the five east-members are usually employed on the Harvard stage as comedians, and the fifth as a dancer. Emily Levine gives a spine-chilling performance as the mother, easily her best to date, and not once does she lapse into any of the mannerisms that have marked her last three performances. Susan Channing plays the daughter. Her sheer technical skill is amazing, and she manipulates the emotions of the audience with the slightest change...
...fresh and new. Their thrills of terror at the acrobats are genuine, their laughter at the clowns unforced and free. And as the lights go out and they swing their souvenir flashlights on strings ("Only a dolleranaquardagitemnow!"), they make a thousand circles of light in the arena -a Spine-Tingling Superlative Spectacle that Old Man Ringling would have paid a fortune for and kids can see for No Additional Price...