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...Christie has unfortunately marred by overstatement his painting The Kitchen. This picture would make its point perfectly without the nude on the far left which adds tooo sharp a sense of ugliness to the composition. The background is painted masterfully. Christie is also at home in a more abstract vein. His Carnival, in the manner of Jackson Pollock, is spattered with gaiety and cleverness...
...baton with a pencil sharpener. Purpose of the Hoffnung concert (recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall with a full symphony orchestra and some of Britain's leading musicians) was to translate the cartoons into sound. The result is spectacular, in a sort of highbrow Spike Jones vein...
...calmer vein the Toronto Star reflected: "We believe it wiser to think of him as a victim of sacrificial service to his country than to say that he was 'murdered' by the slander of a few irresponsible men in Washington. Mr. Norman will carry the truth of his motivation to the grave with...
...open the way for Bailey, assistants now passed tourniquets like cotton shoelaces around both great veins but did not yet draw them tight. Another tourniquet went around the right subclavian artery. With a needle holder like a long, slender pair of pliers, Bailey dipped his needle lightly in and out of the wall of the right auricle, drawing only a few drops of blood as he made two circular (purse-string) sutures. "Suction." An assistant dipped a glass-tipped rubber tube, attached to a vacuum pump, into the heart bed, drew out the spilled blood. With fine team coordination, Bailey...
...Kings County Hospital have devised a way of using a heart-lung machine to help selected cardiac repeaters survive the critical first six to eight hours. The heart-lung machine, previously used mainly in heart surgery to provide the surgeon with a dry field, takes blood from the leg vein of a patient, infuses oxygen, filters out bubbles in a pad of steel wool and returns the blood under pressure into an arm artery. By thus handling the circulation of about one-third of the body's blood supply, the machine sometimes relieves an ailing heart muscle of enough...