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Bypassed Duct. After the incisions were made, the real technical difficulties began. Moore and his chief assistant, Dr. Alan Birtch, clamped off the portal vein, which delivers blood to the liver for chemical processing, and the inferior vena cava. The hepatic artery, which delivers blood for the liver's own oxygen needs, was so damaged by pressure from the cancer as to be useless. Moore and Birtch decided to use in its place the right kidney artery. That meant removing the right kidney, but a single healthy kidney is all the body needs...
...want to be an artist, you have to be a prostitute," Schneider proclaims in his favorite paradoxical vein. "A prostitute is not ashamed of undressing and showing her beautiful body. An artist has to undress emotionally. The moment you fear showing yourself, stay home." He prefers the intimacy of chamber music because "it is much more personal than symphony music-you must expose more...
...black humor. Kookiness serves for characterization, and unrelated zany episodes for story. The Do-Gooders exemplifies this genre, along with A Bad Man by Stanley Elkin and A Fine Madness by Elliott Baker. Manhattan-born Alfred Gross man, 41, who has written three other novels in the same vein, has been praised for his facility with a special, caviar kind of black humor that only the hip can hope to fully understand. Actually, The Do-Gooders is a variation of Terry Southern's amoral, completely antisocial Magic Christian, but it is also disastrously lacking in Southern's wild...
...people who read about Barbara Triano [July 5] and see a glucose bottle run dry will panic. Venous pressure is higher than air pressure and air will not enter a vein unless it is forced in. The only thing that happens when a glucose bottle runs dry is that some of the glucose remains in the tubing. I offer this correction so that we won't have to give treatment for hysteria along with our glucose infusions...
...similar vein might federal historians record that Lyndon Johnson headed back to his humble Texas dwelling in the happy knowledge that the world was at peace, his nation united and content...