Word: chins
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...January 2004, five people in Florida died following cosmetic plastic surgery, prompting the state's board of medicine to open an investigation. All five, ranging in age from 38 to 63, had their operations done in doctors' offices. One had a breast augmentation; another, surgery on his eyes, chin and neck; another had liposuction and a fat transfer; and two, liposuction and tummy tuck. Citing an "immediate danger to public health," the board issued a 90-day moratorium on the two procedures being performed together in a nonhospital setting. A 54-year-old woman, the wife of a cardiologist, died...
...cases under investigation, a combination of surgeries may have proved fatal. James McCormick had decided to go to the Florida Center for Cosmetic Surgery in Fort Lauderdale to nip and tuck his crow's feet. His doctor recommended a brow job as well and offered to throw in a chin implant at a discount. McCormick agreed to all the procedures and was at the facility less than four hours. By the next day, he was dead. Citing patient confidentiality, Dr. Jeffrey Hamm, medical director of the facility, declined to discuss the case...
Artistically the highlight has surely been studying piano at Longy School of Music with Wayman Chin. It’s been an amazing time and I wish I could be around to study with him for a few more years. Working with him has given me an entirely new way of listening to both others’ playing...
Seated in front of the endless drone of the television—right now, treating us to a very grainy version of The Drew Carey Show—one guest’s chin sinks to his chest in slumber. The volunteers and guests who haven’t gone to bed yet sit in clusters and talk in hushed tones...
...Bundchen was still in the realm of our planet, the kind of woman who turns every head on a SoHo corner. Then, hair in curlers and wearing a robe, she posed for a few Polaroids to check the lighting. The faces she made--mouth open, eyes squinting, lips pouting, chin thrust forward--are lasered into my memory. They broke my heart, just as I had feared...