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...that about two-thirds of the cases detected were in an early, curable stage-and only about half these cancers could have been detected without X rays. Said Dr. Philip Strax, director of the New York detection center: "The real risk is in not doing mammography." Added Dr. Barbara Ward of Boise, Idaho: "These reports are doing more damage than good by scaring women away...
Tricky Business. Rehearsing her chorus, Hillis is both morale builder and teacher. At one point in the Ninth she holds her palm out as if to ward off the sound. "Piano. Piano. You know that young man will hold that note forever," she says, referring to James Levine, 33, music director of the Met, who is to conduct the full symphony. "I expect you to be as young as he is." A few measures later she is talking about one of the chorus' celebrated pianissimos. "Sopranos, listen to the tenors and just place the sparkling star gently above their...
...state of decay. The concierge (Shelley Winters) shows him a flat whose previous occupant, a young woman, attempted suicide by jumping out of a window into the courtyard below. Trelkovsky gets his only glimpse of the girl during a visit to the hospital, where he finds her on a ward bed, wrapped in gauze like a mummy on welfare. She stares at him, at another girl (Isabella Adjam) who is also visiting, then screams, opening her mouth and letting the sound rush out between broken teeth. She dies. Trelkovsky moves into the apartment...
...Thomas Ward Collegeville...
...despite the fact that it was not very well performed. The far superior off-Broadway revival five years later ran for more than 500 performances (at this time a French film version, Les Sorcieres de Salem, was also in release, with a screenplay by Jean-Paul Sartre; and Robert Ward's fine Pulitzer-Prize-winning opera based on the play would follow...