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...digestive tract. Soon after 5-fluorouracil has attacked the cancer, it damages these vital, normal cells. Patients begin to suffer from vomiting. At the first sign of inflammation and ulceration in the mouth, doctors stop the drug. Usually they try to give heavy doses (injected into an arm vein) for three to five days, followed by smaller doses on alternate days until they have to stop. Then they lay off for a month, to spare the bone marrow and gut lining, and start again...
EXETER: A tight suspense film in the psychological vein is Rene Clement's PLEIN SOLEIL. Telling the story of a daring daylight attempt at the perfect crime, the film features spectacular color shots of the Adriatic and Maria de la Foret, and a good acting job by Alain Delon...
FENWAY: Another Italian in the same vein, Michaelangelo Antonini, has turned out L'Avventura, which deals with the same society as La Dolce Vita, and draws many of the same conclusions. In telling his story of a missing person at an island party, Antonini produces a slow but polished work of art. (Won a Special Award at Cannes, and took first prize at the London Film Festival...
...instances where the wom an would not consider the customs of the people," wrote her chief. "I returned her to the States. This pleased many people, not because they disliked the woman, but because they wanted the right to have their own way of life recognized." In a similar vein, the corpsmen learned the proper way for a woman to offer cigarettes to a Buddhist priest: put the pack on a rock, since the priests cannot receive anything directly from female hands. ¶ It is not always necessary to observe local customs, but it is always advisable to find...
...only seen two plays ("And one of them was Charley's Aunt"), Sappho probably belongs on the bookshelf rather than the stage. But as a first play, it contains ample evidence that Novelist Durrell could become a major English dramatist, following his recently stated ambition to "explore the vein" of modern verse drama opened by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and Christopher Fry, but "in terms of drama not morality plays, of human beings not metaphysics...