My heart shrank into a knob of hurt and yearning.
"Looking at your picture, our heart shrinks," a relative, Ilana Zarbiv, cried out to the baby.
When his response was to detach himself, she announced he was making her heart shrink.
But she seems drawn over and over again to a generalized language of feeling, even lazy cardiology prose: "His heart split open"; "Helen felt as though her mother had... squeezed her heart"; "Connie felt her heart fill with gratitude for her sister"; "Connie's heart shrank"; "His heart tossed this way and that".
But it seems as soon as we got to play the Sixers, our heart shrunk".
"It feels like everyone's hearts are shrinking a bit, at a time when we should be more open hearted," he says.
It connected to the heart externally, weighed 45kg (100lb) and was powered by a 12-volt battery that had to be lugged around on a cart and recharged every 72 hours.Since the 1950s pacemakers, which use electrical impulses to regulate a beating heart, have shrunk substantially, as have their power packs.
There's a risk of kidney stones as calcium leaches from bones, heart muscles shrink and, with blood glucose control confused by lack of exercise, diabetes may set in. Britain has decided not to be involved in the manned aspects of Aurora but is contributing to the robotic exploration stages.
Last year a University of Calgary trial found that people on overnight dialysis (with traditional machines) needed fewer hypertension drugs and their thickened heart muscles shrank, according to the results in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In a trio of 5-foot-long drawings and the mural-scale centerpiece of the show, "It Is With a Heavy Heart," Farber shrinks his figures, adds schematic faces and multiplies their numbers by the dozens, hundreds or thousands.
