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...call it, of "Anne Ford, with her husband Giancarlo Uzielli." That must have come as a surprise to the Wall Street brokerage house where he works, after he'd been telling everybody he was in the hospital with a slipped disc. The thing is, he was. With Gianni bedridden, Anne, 23, now six months pregnant, dressed up in a silver and white minitent and trooped off to the benefit premiere of Hawaii, organized by her mother. Anne's escort: TV Producer Michael Santangelo, a friend of Gianni's who looks enough like him to fool any photographer...
...cushions, he first tried placing wads of soft pie dough under his patients, then lumps of a children's jelly-like plaything called Silly Putty. Next, he designed 16-sq.-in. pads of silicone gel, which have the resiliency of flesh itself. Protected by such pads, sores in bedridden patients were not only prevented but also healed. When the gel is used in wheel-chair seats, says Spence, the decreased threat of pain and tissue breakdown even serves as a form of psychotherapy...
...mechanism for pumping 81 gallons of deodorant, disinfectant flushing solution -enough, say the manufacturers, for 80 or more uses. Its convenience, they say, extends beyond hospitals and other institutions to the private home (if it can afford the unit price of $495) where a family member is convalescent or bedridden...
...face, and growing mustaches on women. Colonel Moser emphasized two severe unpleasant side effects that may go undetected. Given to victims of leukemia or Hodgkin's disease, he said, these hormones predispose the patients to fungus infections, and they leach the calcium out of the bones of the bedridden elderly...
Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman, 47, is almost as pessimistic on paper as he is on film (Winter Light, The Silence). Bedridden for four months with a bronchial infection, Bergman issued a statement accepting The Netherlands' Erasmus Award ($13,800) for his contributions to the arts. It was less a statement than a cheerless obituary on the arts. "Religion and art are kept alive for sentimental reasons," brooded the Lutheran pastor's son; and the modern artistic movement "seems to me like a snake's skin full of ants. The snake is long since dead, eaten, deprived...