Word: spleens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...operation was not without serious complications. While the surgeons were removing part of Teresa's liver, they tore her spleen and decided they had to remove it. The loss of the spleen means she will be slightly more susceptible to infections, and may have to take antibiotics for the rest of her life. To gain access to the liver, the doctors also had to remove Teresa's gall bladder. As for the baby, she had to undergo a second operation to stop bleeding from her new liver. The doctors hope Teresa can be released from the hospital this week...
...deadpanned nonstop alliterations into the phone as he promoted an employee ("I'm putting you in charge of Pittsburgh, Peter!") and closed a contract ("Dick, what's the deal with the deal?"). The 1982 Federal Express commercial featuring the fast-talking Mr. Spleen struck a chord in frantic managers everywhere. Last week it was rated the best ad of the 1980s in a Top Ten list compiled by the One Club, an industry group...
...liquid, containing about 16 million immune cells from the liver and thymus of two aborted fetuses, and injected the material into David's umbilical cord. After he was born, David received an injection of more cells. Blood tests indicate that the transplanted cells have multiplied in David's liver, spleen and bone marrow -- signs that his immune system may become normal...
...America agony is just show biz, life-and-death issues are matters of style, and even the most desperate night callers seek sleazy entertainment, not salvation. But Stone wants more. In Salvador and Platoon he found drama to match his message; here he must invent tragedy to suit his spleen. He moves Barry from Cleveland to Dallas and appropriates the murder of Denver radio host Alan Berg -- a little silver anniversary present to the Kennedy-assassination city. Stone's camera closes in on Bogosian's face as if it were the cratered moonscape of the American mind, and the actor...
Fighting back tears, the former editor of children's books recalled how Steinberg had first wooed her by promising to teach her about life. The lessons, she testified, soon turned to assaults so severe that she lost her spleen, several teeth and partial hearing in one ear. Her eye was damaged, her nose broken, and one knee hobbled. Six times, Nussbaum claimed, she tried to run away, but she always returned. She had become convinced she "could not survive without him." After one pummeling in 1984, she fled to a shelter for battered women and was sent to Bellevue Hospital...