Word: stapler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which staples must be loaded one by one with tweezers, U.S. Surgical Corp.'s more advanced instruments use throwaway, presterilized cartridges. The carefully engineered instruments are lighter and remarkably versatile. They can fire as many as four different sizes of sutures in as many different patterns. The stapler itself looks like a stainless steel monkey wrench with a pistol grip. Setting its minuscule metal staples in suture lines that are doubled for safety, it can clamp together as much as 3½ inches of tissue with a single squeeze of the surgeon's hand. It can save upwards...
This fall, however, the Harvard Drama Review has made its escape from the domination of the stapler into a slick-paper format, written and assembled at greater leisure. Joel Silverstein, the editor, has put together the most intelligent collection of critics any of these magazines has ever had, and the reviews, though still erratic, have been far better on the average...
Paris gallery owners estimate that there are about 100 serious U.S. painters now working in Paris, but few of them have attracted as much attention as 35-year-old Joe Downing, who comes from Horse Cave, Ky. (pop. 1,545). With scraps of specially treated paper and a stapler to fasten them together, Downing produces "paintings" that have brought French critics under his spell...