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When Cheney entered the hospital last Saturday just after 8 a.m., doctors gave him a mild sedative, then threaded a wire through one of the veins in his right leg up to his heart. By sending different electrical pulses through the wire, the physicians succeeded in re-creating the irregular heartbeats that were picked up by the Holter monitor. Then they figured out where to place the lead wires from the ICD to ensure that it would deliver the correct voltage to the appropriate spots on the heart whenever the heart needed to resume a normal beat...
...best sculptors, of course, have always valued craft: good making, consummate skill. Quite often in America, those responsibilities were delegated to fabricators, as in most Minimalism. But the special intensity of Puryear's work comes from doing everything himself, mainly in wood (though tar, mud and wire also figure in his repertoire). Through the action of the shaping hand on wood, he brings forth a poetry of material substance that's unique in today's America. Puryear has always been troubled by the art/craft division in American culture. "At bottom it's a class issue really," he says. "'Art' means...
...reassuring, for him it probably is almost routine by now. Once more through the chart: This is the vice president's third hospitalization since the election. He had his first heart attack in 1978, quadruple bypass surgery in 1988, and his latest, fourth heart attack in November (complete with wire stent to open a 90-percent-blocked artery...
...anyway. In a safe house on the top floor of a concrete apartment building, they huddled on the linoleum floor, pouring over a map of Mongolia while a missionary went over the route they would take, explaining where to make the crossing under the concertina wire at the frontier, urging them to keep walking until they are able to surrender to Mongolian border troops. The missionary is tense, jumpy. He tells them he has heard that the Mongolians, under pressure from China, are starting to close their border to refugees...
...sorts of precocious experiments, like poking new holes in player-piano music to make new melodies, or, at 13, disconnecting a console radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he would wire his guitar to radios stage right and left: voil?, stereo! 'If you can be an engineer and a musician,' he told David John Farinella for a biographical sketch in 'The Encyclopedia of Record Producers' (Billboard Books, 1999), 'that's very complementary...