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...Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha. Two Chicago housewives-whose principal credits are six children-contributed a short play to Chicago's WBBM-TV about how difficult it was to kill the monk Rasputin. Actor Val Bettin was a triumph of holy lechery with a soft ten-inch beard around smacking wet lips...
...lugs on each front wheel they bolted sharp blades of the toughest steel, affixed so that the whirling edges would chop barbed wire to bits. Then they wedged one-quarter-inch sections of steel plate inside the bus to stop bullets...
...arch of bars that connects them like golden steppingstones. But Lippold's achievement is that on every level and from every angle the sculptures are successful, as esthetically true as a bunch of grapes. From the lobby, they cut the room's vast elongation without removing an inch of space. From the first balcony, they explode like flowers suddenly bursting into bloom. Higher up, the slender wires attract attention: hundreds of cats' cradles that seem to have the delicacy of spiders' webs. The sculptures weigh a total of five tons, but they seem to keep afloat...
...wrote a great opera, and at such times there was no one like him The glory of this man." wrote Stendhal in 1823. "is only limited by the limits of civilization itself; and he is not yet 32." That same year Rossini pushed civilization's limits back an inch or two with a chef-d'oeuvre called Semiramide, a Golden Age work of such immense demands that in the past 50 years even opera's stars have seldom dared to sing...
...temperature dropped to 82°, her heart stopped beating. The pump was already doing her heart's work and also cooling her blood. It continued to do so while the surgeons put clamps on the aorta both above and below the constriction. Dr. Newman made an inch-long cut in the aorta's wall and stitched in a plastic (Teflon) gusset, two-thirds of an inch wide at the base. This made the great artery a uniform width from the aortic valve to its big bend. Ro Anne's temperature hit a low of 77°, then...