Word: cosmeticized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, there are good reasons why the First Lady may have proceeded as she did. For women with small breasts, lumpectomy may not offer a significant cosmetic advantage over mastectomy. And some women feel safer if the entire breast is removed. Says Goodman: "There are women who fear they...
The peace process set in motion by the Guatemala accord has already yielded some results in Nicaragua. In a succession of gestures that the Reagan Administration has called "cosmetic," President Daniel Ortega Saavedra invited three exiled priests to return home, granted pardons to 16 imprisoned foreigners, reopened the opposition daily...
Cosmetic surgery has become a popular operation for sagging baby boomers (men and women) who can afford the bill.
Such readily available quick fixes for cosmetic problems have fostered a remarkably casual attitude toward plastic surgery. "I see it as a little investment in health, like owning an electric toothbrush," says Joyce Nesbit, 32, a Los Angeles psychologist who has enthusiastically undergone several procedures. But cosmetic repair has greater...
Doctors debate whether or not public enthusiasm has gone too far. At Johns Hopkins, Dr. John Hoopes turned away a 23-year-old woman "who felt she would feel better if she had an eye lift." Hoopes estimates that he and his colleagues reject about 25% of those seeking cosmetic...