Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blood supply to his arm shut off with a tourniquet until the arm was paralyzed, then watched another man move it with an electric current. To upset his body's acid-alkali balance, he drank ammonium chloride and panted for days afterward. To prove that "sunstroke" (properly, heat stroke) is not caused directly by the sun's rays, but by the overheating of the brain and spinal cord, he sat in Egypt's broiling sun for two hours, periodically dousing his head and spine with water. He got no heat stroke, but he suffered a severe sunburn...
...closer to the picture plane, like noses pressed against a window pane. Johns is totally uninterested in the game of perspective; his interest is in the surface of the canvas and in putting instantly recognizable symbols through rigorous permutations. He slathers and slurries his images with a random, painterly stroke reminiscent of the abstract expressionists. He rubs sterile graphic images in an artist's saucy delight of texture...
...opening scene with lovely, halfnaked things (girls, in case that leaves any ambiguity for the Allen Ginsberg set). For every occasion and for every character he created dances that showed the genetic influence of vaudeville, the Charleston, the Hasty Pudding, and Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev. By some particularly brilliant stroke, he cast John Lithgow as Paramount the First, King of Utopia...
...Nose and Throat In firmary, who in the early 1940s came to the rescue of mothers everywhere by pioneering the use of tiny magnets to retrieve from the throats, stomachs and lungs of children all manner of metal objects previously removed by surgery or not at all; of a stroke; in Atlanta...
...market dealers are also under no restrictions against dumping inventories when the market is falling. The exchange is even more upset over the commissions its member firms are losing to the third market. If the exchange wanted to, however, it could check the third's growth in one stroke: by offering commission discounts on large-volume transactions. Under the pressure of competition, the exchange has begun to review the possibility of doing just that...