Word: dentalized
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...them down and kill them. The most attractive element of the story is the hero's own first-person accounts. "My thoughts explode in words," Main exclaims. Elkin's recurring images literally explode off the page: Main sees a "Cincinnati beneath him like a crescent of jawbone, the buildings dental, gray as neglect, the Ohio juicing the town like saliva;" he speaks a "dialogue alive on my teeth like plaque;" and in a natural museum, "It is the teeth that he comes back again and again to see, as if these were the distillate of the animal's soul...
Engraved in gold and amber, it seemed like a typical Beverly Hills party invitation, except for one thing: the bash was to be held in a dental office. Even so, some 400 curious neighbors turned out last fall to drink and mingle under wooden beams, amid ankle-deep carpets and expensive French prints. Soft rock music wafted round a small jungle of indoor plants as guests explored color-coordinated treatment rooms and dental equipment discreetly hidden away in wooden cabinets. The idea, explained mod-garbed Dentists Gerard Frankel and Richard Winograde, was to create a soothing atmosphere for fearful patients...
...ordinary filling-station look of a dentist's office is obscene, repulsive," says Frankel. "I hate it. Why can't dental offices be beautiful?" Indeed, Frankel and Winograde are so convinced of the importance of aesthetic surroundings that they sank about $50,000 into decor alone, compared with about $1,500 spent on furnishing a typical dentist's office. The Beverly Hills dentists have also catered to the other senses; in addition to the soft carpets and music, they offer nervous patients sherry and cognac. More effective anesthetics are also available: a sign at the reception desk...
Hollywood Dentist Gordon Bennett, ex-chairman of the California Dental Association's ethics committee, who will soon join Frankel and Winograde as a partner, feels that there is a growing trend toward making dentistry a less painful experience. "The whole atmosphere of white jackets, antiseptic smells and waiting rooms," he says...
...dollar. This was the single most devastating attack against the Parti Québécois. The Liberals were also helped by their undeniably good economic record. In Bourassa's 3½ years as Premier, his government had created a vast social welfare program-including free medical and dental care-without raising taxes. New industries were blossoming, and unemployment had dropped from 10% to less than...