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Burcham's cascade of medical problems began during surgery, when doctors discovered that his chest cavity was too small to accommodate the grapefruit- size Jarvik-7. DeVries was forced to pare away at the breastbone and twist the heart's chambers around to make it fit. "It was like putting a round peg in a square hole," he said. The struggle to implant the artificial heart probably contributed to Burcham's massive bleeding over the next 24 hours. In all, he lost more than five gallons of blood--four times the total volume in an average-size adult. Only continual...
...twist between my hands the greasy wadding...
...mother's disapproval. Soon, Ilana leaves public school and enrolls in a Jewish day school. There is a sort of spiritual determinism at work here: despite her mother's adamant atheism, despite her father's Protestant background Ilana has a Jewish soul in need of uncovering. This represents a twist of the theme of generational conflict that is at the crux of much of Potok's work. In both The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lee youngsters from religious backgrounds partially break away from their families and communities in pursuit of secular goals. In Davita Harp however, the pattern...
...axed in the head, downed and run over by a bulldozer and still keep on ripping. Jason is the Timex watch of psychopathic killers. Part 5 even pays tribute to Jerry Lewis's touching imitations of spastics by setting up Jason in a mental institution. With this intricate plot twist, he can back has way through orphans, stutters, nymphomaniacs, hicks and all the other people that no one really cares about...
...reporter, said that Troy was high at the time of the shooting. Goetz told Friedman on the phone, "Those guys, I'm almost sure, are vicious, savage people." An attorney in the D.A.'s office confirmed Goetz's suspicions: "This was a rough bunch of kids." (In a bizarre twist, Ramseur was arrested last week for faking his own kidnaping, apparently to see how the police would react...