Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, the cowboys are simply trying to shoot straight. "Cowboy four," Captain Anderson, an earnest young Florida-born pilot whose dentist father talked him past a water-skiing career by providing flying lessons at 16, is up. Circling a mile high around the mountains, Anderson suddenly dives to 200 feet to avoid "enemy" radar and screams at 600 m.p.h. toward the intended victim, an Army surplus M-47 tank having a bad day. The desert is a Jackson Pollock abstract, and Anderson is so low that when he is just four miles away, he can't see the tank...
...country's fastest-growing populations of those over 65. In some places it seems a wholly different, more leisurely universe, full of choices and passions long delayed. There is Hulda Crooks, 91, who has climbed 97 mountains since she turned 65, most recently Mount Fuji in Japan. And Dentist James Jay, 74, who finished, along with 51 other septuagenarians and four octogenarians, that 26-mile ribbon of pain, the New York City Marathon. And Virginia Peckham, 69, known on San Clemente beach as "That Crazy Old Lady," riding an orange-and-white boogie board and shouting surfing mantras. And Etta...
Technical mastery of anything seemed unlikely when Stankard was a youngster. "I was a dreamer. My mother wanted me to be a dentist, but I flunked all my grades." His father, who was a chemist, suggested scientific glassblowing; that appealed to the young Stankard, and he enrolled in a technical school. After graduating he spent a decade working in industry, making glass instruments for laboratories. But the job became increasingly repetitive, and "I would entertain myself by making glass animals and flowers. Then I began experimenting with making paperweights...
...description includes the ability to find a dentist who will pull a tooth late on a Saturday night, round up a photographer to shoot a corpse, book a flight out of a city shut down by snow, arrange blood tests for a wedding, deliver 24 rolls of dental floss to a rock band at midnight -- with no questions asked. Welcome to the world of the modern-day hotel concierge -- part detective, travel agent, secretary and magician. In medieval Europe, concierges were simply doorkeepers. Today's concierges are polished executive servants who are called upon to fulfill a traveler's every...
...shot director "discovers" her; he can't take his eyes off her. Anna takes in this poor Czech waif, who has sought her out after growing up admiring her on the screen, and within a year, Krystyna has learned English, had her teeth fixed (for free, by an amorous dentist), and landed the lead in a Hollywood movie. She remains pure and ingenuous, living a charmed life as she charms everyone, down to the little boys on her street...