Word: yorke
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DIED. LESTER BOWIE, 58, theatrical avant-garde jazz trumpeter and founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago; of liver cancer; in Brooklyn, New York. A key voice in the experimental-jazz movement of the 1960s in Chicago, Bowie recorded and performed in Europe and the U.S. for 35 years--often in his trademark white coat...
DIED. RICHARD MARTIN, 52, erudite curator of the Costume Institute at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art; of melanoma; in New York City. A former F.I.T. art-history professor, Martin combined scholarship and pop culture to invigorate the Costume Institute. Among his recent shows: Wordrobe, a retrospective of clothing decorated with words...
Robert De Niro plays Walt Koontz, an almost parodistically macho security guard, who is felled by a stroke as he tries to prevent a robbery in his New York City apartment building. As part of his therapy he requires singing lessons to help him remobilize his frozen vocal cords. Rusty (Philip Seymour Hoffman), his transvestite neighbor, is recruited to tutor him, while we settle down to await their inevitable bonding...
...cardiologist, Dr. Robert Ascheim, put me in touch with Dr. Todd Rosengart, then leader of a team at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City that performs both laser and gene therapy. Rosengart enrolled me among 10 heart patients who would be his second round of, er, guinea pigs for the gene-therapy procedure...
...nasty eggplant underglow--began to turn almost rosy. It seems the body merely needed more time to follow instructions. Or perhaps new vessels had formed in the first month but were too minuscule to be detected by the angiogram. In midsummer, after six months, I returned to New York Presbyterian for more tests. They showed that formerly "hibernating" tissue on the front wall of the heart (not dead, but inactive) had reawakened. The ejection fraction (percentage of blood ejected with each heartbeat) had risen from 29 to 40 (normal is anywhere from 40 to 60). The new vessels had evidently...