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Permanently implanted in these patients' forearms are two plastic tubes, one leading into an artery, the other into a vein. Once or twice a week the patients go to the hospital, where the tubes are hooked up to the artificial kidney. Their blood flows through one of its chambers, and body poisons pass through a cellophane sheet into the second chamber's purifying bath ("dialysate"). The average treatment lasts twelve hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Therapy: An Artificial Kidney For 15 Patients | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

Frozen Dust. Customarily a cavalier poet, even about serious subjects, Ransom sometimes compresses feeling under a surface of grave understatement that eventually reveals, like New England reticence, the hidden vein of pure joy or grief beneath. In the small encounters that he chronicles, a clash of two points of view or a strange moment of fear is often apprehended with a sudden, minute clarity, like two specks of dust frozen in the searchlight of a morning shaft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Equilibrist | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...there is a bright spot in the show, it's Alan Arkin's David. There's not much to the part, but Arkin never stops trying: he apes, he mimics, he double takes, and he double talks. Yet Arkin's humor is strictly in the Jerry Lewis vein. And how many adults like Lewis...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: Enter Laughing | 3/24/1964 | See Source »

...analyze and dissect the moment he encounters the object, instead of letting is soak into him as he gazes and looks, and dreams for hours together, the way I used to when young, and still should if I had youth's leisure. I recall writing in the same vein about the contemporary student's approach to literature. He is not encouraged to live and muse and ruminate over his reading but to precipitate himself with scalpel and microscope. I wonder whether the arts gain by being taught in schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Browser | 3/19/1964 | See Source »

...Psychotic Killer Roddy McDowall may or may not reveal the location of $1,000,000 in stolen cash. But malevolent Psychiatrist Lauren Bacall also craves money, to continue her research. When she hits on Whitman's game, she prescribes electroshock therapy, then injects a concoction into his jugular vein to induce catatonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boredom in Bedlam | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

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