Word: tympanums
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...right NASA nerds--representing responsible, clueless adulthood--who must hurriedly train them for space flight, deliver them to their target on time and admit in the end that obstreperous irresponsibility has its uses. Stupid as this may sound, there's some fun in this conflict--maybe more than the tympanum-rupturing music and effects track allows you to hear...
...does not live by his tympanum alone, and the rest of the movie is, frankly, a mess. There was a decent impulse behind it, namely to make an hour by hour study of how the American and Japanese fleets groped their way toward the naval battle that effectively decommissioned the Japanese navy in World War II. For half an hour or so hope flares temptingly that a film first is in the making - a coherent explanation of how a complex military engagement was actually fought...
...than 17 million Americans suffer from some degree of hearing loss. Many are older people whose deafness is caused by progressive nerve damage, which can often be corrected by artificial hearing aids. But a significant number are younger people whose impairment is triggered by disease or injury to the tympanum and ossicles (see diagram), the eardrum and tiny vibrating bones that transmit sound waves to the inner...
Until recently, surgeons had only one method of correcting damage to the eardrum-repair of the tympanum with tissue usually taken from the fibrous lining of the ear muscle. This operation sometimes thickened the eardrum and thus produced only questionable improvements in hearing efficiency. Now surgeons are perfecting a technique for replacing damaged eardrums and ossicles with healthy donor tissue. The operation offers some new hope for an escape from hearing impairment...
...most entertaining discoveries in Kraus's The Living Theatre of Medieval Art (Indiana University Press; $15) concerns the tympanum of the abbey church at Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, probably the earliest (circa A.D. 1130) monumental portrayal of the Judgment Day. Until Kraus came along, scholars had assumed that seven little men at Christ's feet represented souls of the blessed and the damned rising from their graves. Kraus, however, noted that they were clothed instead of naked, contrary to customary portrayals of souls, and that all were men (normally, some would be women). While four were either praying...