Word: bridgework
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They are replaced by increasingly elaborate, architecturally fascinating examples of period bridgework. Since, however, one of the reasons the historical Ludwig failed to brush three times a day and see his dentist twice a year was that he was preoccupied with the construction of those huge, zany castles on which his fame-and much of modern Bavaria's tourist industry-rests, it seems perverse of Director Visconti to give us so many splendid views of the royal mouth, and only one or two postcard snaps of the royal passion...
...Sprague's most celebrated cases occurred in 1961, when he decided to prosecute a man for the first-degree murder of his wife even though no body, no blood, no physical evidence of violence was ever found. Sprague argued that no woman would willingly disappear without taking her bridgework, her clothes and cosmetics...
...Magnuson's bridgework gleams in a smile of childlike innocence, and bromides fall from his lips like gentle rain. On the ice, beware. The angelic face twists into a toothless snarl, while the bromides give way to threats of mayhem. Magnuson is a "policeman," a player whose job it is to keep the other team in line. Other than football, no team sport puts a greater premium on bodily contact than hockey-the crunching board check, the elbow-flailing combat for the puck behind the net, the boiling free-for-all over real or imagined irregularities...
PERELMAN'S subjects range from reminiscences of the Marx Brothers to an encounter with a singing lady dentist who plants a radio transmitter in his incisor and calls him up when she hears him eating a forbidden bagel ("Lock Lips-Monkey-shines in the Bridgework"). Very rarely does he have any real satiric intentions. In one piece, though, "Let a Snarl Be Your Umbrella," there is a hint of very good-natured satire. Perelman finds himself ignored, insulted, and humiliated by a series of British clerks, in what appears to be a conspiracy to make the customer suffer. He discovers...
...chewing programs of 24 volunteers have been tuned in, and Dr. Adams hopes that his records will eventually aid his colleagues in telling if a bite is good or poor in real dentures. What reward do the volunteers get for their services? A piece of nonbroadcasting bridgework to replace their own missing molars...