Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Chile had an earthquake, Pakistan got a tidal wave, and the United States ended up with Santa Claus. Yet, we have celebrated our disaster and have been too shallow to realize the damage he has done to our moral fiber...
...rejoin damaged arteries or torn muscle tissues. Another, the nerve crossover, requires the use of an undamaged nerve-usually the hypoglossal nerve that controls tongue movement-to innervate facial muscles as well. The third and most difficult procedure is the autogenous nerve graft: surgeons remove a piece of nerve fiber from elsewhere in the patient's body and use it to replace the section of facial nerve cut away in tumor surgery or damaged by injury...
Complex Procedures. Nerve surgery is frustratingly complex. Many nerve fibers are finer than sewing thread, have branchings that are difficult to locate and even harder to suture. The nerve fiber used in an autogenous graft is rarely more than two millimeters wide. Surgeons use a ten-power microscope, hair-thin sutures and exceedingly delicate instruments. The microscope magnifies the nerve enough to make it look as large as a piece of string...
...hood, and the two handmaidens (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton) just hang around, giggling a lot and getting into bed and king-sized bathtubs with anyone available. The film, which pretends to have something more or less profound to say about exchanges of identity and loosening of moral fiber, alternates between incomprehensible chichi and flatulent boredom. Donald Cammell, the writer and codirector, edits his film elliptically and achieves a suffocating sense of baroque paranoia, but seemingly endless cliches overcome all the subliminal imagery...
...center steering wheel has been replaced by two wheels on either side of the cockpit, allowing the skipper to vary his vantage point. In addition to the two-wheel drive, Chance plans to add a lighter boom partly made of a new space-age material called carbon-fiber. HERITAGE is the first 12-meter designed, constructed, sponsored and skippered by one man. He is Charles Morgan Jr., a Florida yacht-builder and an experienced ocean racer. Though his do-it-yourself venture extends to cutting his own sails, he likes to call his 62-ft. 6-in. sloop the "people...