Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...which Panorama pushed, is also controversial. Doctors note that people who are alive can have a flat EEG, suggesting no brain activity. Moreover, even inanimate matter can appear to have life. A doctor once wired a plate of Jell-O in an intensive care unit and proved it was "alive"; the electrodes picked up impulses from equipment in the room. Says Plum: "EEGS are done more as a reassuring step to doctor and family than because they are any more foolproof than good clinical observation...
That begins on the road from Americus to Plains, though with nothing like the quantity or hideousness that is standard issue now for the edges of almost any town. I note the chaste welcome center on my left with only three cars in the lot, then the silos and water tank, and finally the nice row of brick stores that have easily endured their freight of souvenirs and the acid marinade of countless photographs to remain as anyone's icon of small-town America. They are not exactly an architecturally distinguished row, but their variety and fantasy of ornament...
Lennon was no stranger to threats on his life. As early as 1964, at the first Beatles concert in France, Lennon got a note backstage that read, "I am going to shoot you at 9 tonight." He had only lately become accustomed to the freewheeling anarchy of New York street life: "I can go out this door now and go into a restaurant . . . Do you want to know how great that is?" he told the BBC. But friends remember him as being guarded both in public and around the few people he and Ono met during the long years...
...looked as if matrimony were in for another of the ideological muggings that have become as common in the past ten years as Mickey Ropney's honeymoons were in an earlier age. But wait. A regressively cuddly, softening note sounded: "Nevertheless, snuggled in bed at night, that small voice inside still says, 'I want to be married.' " And it may even be all right, wrote Genelli, to heed that little whisper. Before she had finished with the subject, in fact, she had not only granted matrimony a grudging endorsement (after all, "for some but not all couples...
...general in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. They were divorced in 1970. Last year he charged that the FBI had brought on her miscarriage and eventual suicide by leaking a story that falsely claimed she was pregnant by a member of the Black Panther Party. In a final note to his publisher, Gary disclaimed any connection between Seberg's death and his own. In answer to the question "Why then?" he cited the title of his autobiographical volume The Night Will Be Peaceful and quoted its last words: "I have finally explained myself fully...