Word: vein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mamiya knew beforehand where the vital coronary arteries were seriously blocked, but he took one final look at the X rays and compared them with what he saw in front of him. Then he proceeded. Taking one piece of vein from the leg, he grafted it to three points on the heart's surface, thus making sequential or "leapfrog" bypasses around two blocked sections of the arteries in a single maneuver. With another piece of the same vein, he made a third bypass...
...documentaries or scripted films. "I may make a movie about the strike against J.P. Stevens in North Carolina--a documentary--or a scripted film about a fire in a textile plant in 1911 where 140 women died. But I want to make films that work for social change, whatever vein that's in." And the Boston premiere is a benefit for The Film Fund, a group seeking to find money for filmmakers interested in making films that promote social change...
...Caltech's Sinsheimer is partly philosophical -some might even say mystical. He fears the unpredictable consequences of breaching what he calls nature's "evolutionary barrier" between different kinds of creatures-the genetic incompatibility that in most cases prevents one species from breeding with another. In the same vein, retired Columbia Biochemist Erwin Chargaff asks: "Have we the right to counteract, irreversibly, the evolutionary wisdom of millions of years in order to satisfy the ambition and the curiosity of a few scientists...
...funny stories and bittersweet memories and a lot of healthy reminiscences about the dear departed. As anyone who has ever attended an Irish wake knows, there's no better way to brace yourself for a funeral than to mix your tears with a few good laughs. In that vein, Corry's book is about the best tribute to a vanished way of life that any Irishman could wish...
...himself onstage in thick white makeup and a clown suit. Now Sayer has shucked his Petrushka image. Instead he diverts his energy into making rock music of a high order. A gifted songwriter, he has come up with an album of infectious melodies in a sophisticated rhythm-and-blues vein. In addition to the breakaway single You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, he has a winner in the ballad When I Need...