Word: veined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toys in the Attic, by Lillian Hellman in a Tennessee Williams vein, had Boston audiences/coughing and ho-humming through a talky first act, but soon caught their attention with enough incest, adultery, miscegenation and fornication to keep a three-toed sloth awake for a month. Starring Maureen Stapleton, Irene Worth and Jason Robards Jr.., it is the first original play in nine years by Dramatist Hellman (The Little Foxes, The Children's Hour). Wrote the Boston Record's Elliot Norton: "She has written wisely, often wittily, and her point of view is provocative. But the basic story seemed...
...fitted some with featherweight, transistorized pacemakers, which they carry around. Other surgeons have used different approaches to the heart: at Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx, surgeons wired a 67-year-old man by slipping a thin electrical cable into an incision in his neck and working it through a vein into the heart. In some cases, surgeons have plunged a hollow needle through the chest wall and into the heart itself; when a fine wire, passed through the needle, is in place, they withdraw the needle...