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...catgut substitute, which is trade-named Dexon, chemists tested 225 synthetic compounds before they hit upon polyglycolic acid, a polymer or long-chain molecule that is chemically compatible with the human body. They spent four years taming the polymer and learning how to braid it into a multiple-strand yarn of suture size...
...deployment of musical means that suits Lennon's soul-baring mood perfectly. / Found Out ("There ain't no Jesus gonna come from the sky/ Now that I found out I know I can cry") relies for much of its effect on the simple, choked sound of a single guitar strand. Elsewhere Lennon mourns the death of his mother twelve years ago, defines love (as feeling, reaching, needing, freedom) and finally, in God, Lennon says farewell to the Beatles...
...been brushing it wet,' the hairdresser said, lifting a strand of Maria's hair and letting it drop with distaste...
...been brushing it wet,' the hairdresser said, lifting a strand of Maria's hair and letting it drop with distaste...
...trouble. With all the routine miracles being provided by doctors and astronauts, what spaced-out situations are left for the imagination? The solution seems to lie in the past rather than the future. Last year Daphne du Maurier welded the 14th century to the 20th in House on the Strand. Now veteran Screenwriter Jack Finney (The Body Snatchers) tries the same sort of literary retreat, but into the New York City of the 1880s...