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They did not have to wait long for an answer. Last week doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center performed the first such U.S. operation on Dickye Baggett, 42, a Nashville-area clerical worker. Said Dr. George Allen, who led the medical team: "This may usher in a new era of transplantation of tissue into the brain...
...burst through the turnstiles, only to be confronted with a labyrinth of gray ramps and blank beige walls, with no indication of where any of them lead. After losing your sense of direction, you may stumble across an usher in a gold blazer. Upon inspection of your ticket, he tells you--if you're lucky--"Keep going...
More ramps follow, and then you stumble upon the food concourse, and the aroma of hot dogs and spilled beer assaulting your senses. Another Garden usher in a gold jacket talks with a security guard in a blue uniform. Both dismiss you with a terse set of directions...
...Gudrun Gisladottir). They're like refugees from A Dream Play, and the house exudes the acoustic sterility of an undisturbed stageset in a bombed-out theatre; the hardwood floors click too loudly, the furniture looks placed, the china is more for display than use. It's the House of Usher waiting for a match...
Particular quarterbacks move teams beyond the scrimmage line, as the best coaches know. San Francisco's Bill Walsh could make a serviceable quarterback out of an usher, but no one can be taught to lift a team the way Joe Montana raised the 49ers 55 days after back surgery. "Armies work hard for Lancelot," Guard Randy Cross says, "harder for King Arthur." At 38, oft- deposed Raider Jim Plunkett keeps coming back to reign in Los Angeles...