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Spain showed 23 artists whose displays were chockablock with social comment. Most notable was Eduardo Sanz's walk-in Chapel for an Important Man, where altar and stained-glass windows were replaced by abstract, luxurious designs of plastic, glass, polished wood, seemingly a bitter jest at the pious pretensions of the rich. As for Marisol, usually classified as an American artist, she scored a triumph of nationalist and artistic politicking by exhibiting as a Venezuelan, thus getting a whole pavilion for 35 of her delightfully inimitable dolls...
...electronic "pacemaker" was implanted in his upper chest to correct a slow heart rate. That speedy recovery was hardly a surprise to the residents of Bucks County, Pa. Just two days before his operation, Douglas had heartily outpaced 200 other huffing, puffing conservationists on a brisk, five-mile walk-in to protest the partial closing of the 140-year-old Delaware Canal...
...cooling it in red fox, and a jolly American spy (Karl Malden), who is sweating it in a sauna bath. Both of them are working for General Midwinter, a mad Texas multimillionaire (Ed Begley), who is operating a private CIA against Russia, coordinated by a giant walk-in computer complex-the billion-dollar brain...
...order to cope with the increase, a walk-in clinic was established where students could come in with their problems between nine and twelve on week-days and be seen by a senior psychiatrist. The psychiatrist quickly weights the case and decides whether the student could wait for a regular appointment or should be treated immediately. Before the clinic was established. Blaine explained, this important decision was often made by a secretary. After regular hours, there is always at least one psychiatrist on emergency call...
Numerous students complain that although the walk-in clinic looks efficient enough, once you have had your initial interview, it often takes weeks before an appointment slot is open. One student recounted how when he went to UHS and asked for a psychiatrist, he was immediately shuttled off into a little room where a doctor asked him if he had ever contemplated suicide. Once having convinced the doctor that he was not suicidal, he was issued three tranquilizers and sent away. After waiting two weeks for an appointment he found a private psychiatrist outside of the Health Center...