"Not only in the field but the way he operates himself.
The morphine worked; he continued to operate; finally he was anaesthetised and operated on himself.
Another choreographer might have been tempted simply to retell the story of a Tezuka creation: Black Jack, for instance, the superhuman surgeon with the evil streak, who once operated on himself in the middle of the Australian outback surrounded by hungry dingoes.
4 Who killed a French baron for calling his king "the arrantest coward in the world" at a dinner party? 5 Which duellists fought unknowingly with unloaded pistols, following an accusation of cheating at the Lamb Inn? 6 Following victory in a duel in Bengal, which ship's surgeon operated on himself to remove a bullet from his chest?
So he switched from residential lending to homebuilding, albeit on a small scale: He erected some apartment buildings and operated them himself.
He operated on himself again at the age of 70 to repair a hernia.
I once heard a lawyer read the opinion of an eminent jurist to the jury, to prove that his witness, who had never performed certain kind of surgery, was better qualified by· his theoretical knowledge, to testify, as to the merits of the different methods of operating, than the operator himself.
Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, L.L.C., developed a pioneering electronic stock-trading operation, and Madoff himself operated a separate money-management business, which he made available to a select group of investors.
Sylvester Stallone has to operate on himself in Rambo First Blood, but he rescues himself from slob status in the first Rocky movie just by running around Philadelphia every day, until finally he is ready to defeat the unwisely confident world heavyweight champion.
