Sentences with phrase «lobotomy patients»

Payne wallows in this hick sideshow: There's a long shot of the extended family gawking like lobotomy patients at a sports game, while another scene set in a supremely tacky restaurant / karaoke bar finds Stacy Keach — as an old, bullying business partner — warbling out a painful rendition of «In The Ghetto.»

Amid the horrific political issues depicted in many of the works in the Whitney (from the Afghani self - mutilation photographs, to the lobotomy patient video, to the disfigured American soldier portraits), one could make some overly literal interpretations of Grosvenor's plush velvet bridge and ornamental welded metal fence: bridges and boundaries span the political, social, economic, and so on.

I mean c» mon, a lobotomy patient would have a hard time swallowing that.

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El - Hai describes how neurosurgeons experimented to transform the complicated prefrontal lobotomy into the simpler transorbital lobotomy — nearly an outpatient procedure in which a physician entered a patient's brain through a region above the eye with an ice - picklike tool.

Surprisingly, many of Freeman's lobotomies were reported as successful, not only by Freeman but also by some patients and their families, who sent hundreds of letters expressing gratitude.

In 1950 Freeman and Watts reported that of 711 lobotomies they had performed, «45 percent yielded good results, 33 percent produced fair results, and 19 percent left the patient unimproved or worse off.»

It's got to be because it's part of the story telling process; whether it's Pyramid Head appearing at an appropriate time, whether it's a creature born out of the asylum in the suffering of patients who've [had] lobotomies and [have] been operated on... there's a great creature who appears there.