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...Pain. Developed by Dr. Theodore Waugh, 48, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of California at Irvine (U.C.I.), the new joint is a two-piece arrangement that weighs only five ounces. One part of Waugh's "U.C.I, ankle" is an inverted T made of a chromium and cobalt alloy with a concave tip. The other part is an alloy half dome...
...operation that takes a half-hour, Waugh makes an incision in the front of the ankle, saws off the top of the talus, or anklebone, and cuts a wedge-shaped opening in the bottom of the tibia, the larger of the two lower leg bones. He then inserts the metal into the tibia and fastens the dome to the talus. Each part is held in place with a special bone cement. The tension of the leg and ankle tendons holds the joint together and keeps the T in contact with-but able to move on-the dome. Most...
Unglossed with second thoughts or self-justifications, Wilson's impressions sometimes recall the heartless mirth of an otherwise very dissimilar writer of the period, Evelyn Waugh. If friends got divorced, or somebody disappeared, or a girl slit her wrist with the top of a spaghetti can-well, the other revelers could not pause too long over the misfortune lest they lose their grip and go under too. Wilson himself almost did. In 1929 he suffered a nervous breakdown, probably from the cumulative strain of deadlines and tangled romances. While in the sanitorium he became addicted briefly to the drug...
...HARRIET WAUGH 250 pages. Little, Brown...
...catholic a taste in carryings-on suggests the author's father, Evelyn Waugh. Inevitably Daughter Harriet, a sometime editor and technician in the London planetarium who has now written a first novel at 31, suffers in comparison, not only with Father but with precocious Brother Auberon, 35, who turned out The Foxglove Saga 15 years ago. Evelyn satirized his peers and times by following sane characters through a giddy world. Harriet uses the much less engaging converse: crazy people, sane society. The father's unremittingly inhospitable view of humanity lent his books bite and pace. The daughter...