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As this sad biography shows, the perks were lavish but the emotional cost prohibitive. Joan, an upper-middle-class girl from the suburb of Bronxville, N.Y., paid for her real and imagined humiliations by becoming an alcoholic. Much of her story, as told by former Administrative Assistant Marcia Chellis, deals...
Wildrose is the story of a young woman's struggle to maintain her independence from society and men in a small mining town on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range. The narrative conspicuously lacks pretension, prefering a plain-spoken unselfconscious style that cares little for cosmetic surfaces. Unlike last year's...
But has Reagan, still recuperating from his July cancer surgery, absorbed the urgency of the situation? Stuart Spencer, Reagan's longtime political consultant and one of the rare associates with nerve enough to bring the President bad news, returned from a recent lunch at the ranch apparently converted to the...
Dentists are also profiting from America's enthusiasm for self-improvement: apparently, more people want perfect smiles to go with their Nautilus-toned bodies. In New York City, Dr. Barry Bloom has seen cosmetic dentistry rise to account for more than 70% of his practice. "It used to be only...
By far the most popular cosmetic technique is bonding, in which plastic resins are applied directly to the surface of teeth to mask chips, discolorations and cracks, or even to conceal unattractive gaps between teeth. The procedure is simple, and can be performed by almost any dentist. The resins are...