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...Restoration England, a robustious culture surrounded the pious fortress of the church like a red satin garter on a maiden's thigh. Trapped inside the fortress all day, church composers slipped out at night to meet in taverns where, in naughty laughter, they celebrated secular gaiety by composing bawdy songs to one another. Now, three young singers who call themselves "The Catch Club" are running through a lighthearted repertory of the old songs, proving nicely that spicy jokes are almost ageless...
There is one main exception to his general rule, Dr. Hanson admits. Infants have only small gluteal muscles, and because of their squirming he thinks it is safer to give them injections in the front or outer side of the thigh...
...taken out of the bath and Dr. Newman opened her chest. The surgeons saw the rare type of aortic narrowing they had expected, and decided to correct it by putting in a patch. They inserted tubes in the great veins near her heart and in a thigh artery, to hook her up to a heart-lung machine...
...contusion of the frontal and temporal lobes; severe shock; fracture of nine ribs; pneumothorax (air in the pleural space around the lungs); hemothorax (blood in the same space); rupture of the pubic bone junction; fractures of the pubic, hip and haunch bones, and of the head of the left thigh bone; severe contusions of abdominal organs; rupture of the urinary bladder; paralysis of both arms and both legs; gradual failing of circulation, and gradual failing of breathing, apparently from brain damage...
...reverence for detail sometimes betrays him into concerts that are flat and dull. He has a tendency these days to conduct with perfection rather than passion-falling back on his tremendous knowledge and experience to see him through. Plagued for years by physical disabilities-a brain concussion, a broken thigh bone, an operation for a tumor that left him partly paralyzed-he recently survived burns that kept him in the hospital for nearly a year. Klemperer had been smoking his pipe in bed, woke to find his bedclothes smoldering, reached for the nearest liquid on his bedside table. It happened...