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...major danger to the patient remained internal infection. Despite the surgeons' heroic cleanup of the intestinal spillage from the first bullet, some bacteria remained and caused abscesses. Nine days after the operation, pus began to ooze from the surgical incision, and doctors detected an abscess in the left flank. Under local anesthesia, they cut into and drained the infection. Even with massive doses of antibiotics, Wallace now had peritonitis (a potentially fatal inflammation of the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity). It was then that the Governor was very near death. To be effective, antibiotics must reach bacteria through...
...hardscrabble effort to support his wife "Biggie" and infant son Colm by selling football pins and pennants is thwarted by a mob of fans who pick clean his display board. Seeing his existence threatened by "little things-errors of judgment, but never crimes" -Bogus begins identifying with Akthelt, the heroic warrior and lover in Akthelt and Gunnel-an absurd Old Low Norse epic he is translating for his doctoral thesis. And when Akthelt is told "Det henskit of krig er tu overleve" ('The object of war is to survive it"), Trumper thinks: "Which struck me as the object...
...painting. Pollock, Gorky, Rothko, Kline, David Smith, Hofmann, Newman and Reinhardt are all dead, and their work has been so long discussed, labeled, ticketed and run through the meat grinder of mass art education that it has already assumed the air of an august period style-the last "heroic" American art. The absurd consequence has been that the group's surviving members,*of whom Motherwell is the youngest, have come to be mistakenly regarded as anachronisms whose work occupies a historical pigeonhole but has only a shadowy relationship to the present...
...celebrating a "Double Jubilee," Athenagoras' 50th year as a bishop and the 50th anniversary of the American archdiocese. The congress immediately adjourned in mourning, but it had already heard the most important message-a plea from Iakovos for Greek Orthodoxy in the Americas to take on a heroic new spiritual tone...
Ride the High Country. Sam Peckinpah's superb second feature, one of the best American films of the '60's. Though elegiac in tone, the film recognizes the death of the frontier and of heroic values along with it. And some very modern psychological truths are introduced in incredible scenes at a mining camp, Sunday, noon, CHANNEL...