Word: dentist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cross between Waiting to Exhale and You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again. It crackles with devastating caricatures of male pomposity, black and white, that help explain why it is so difficult for black women to make themselves heard. There is Nelson's fulminating father, a prosperous dentist who admonished his children to "be number one" while hoisting his middle finger to drive home the point; Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, a "short, gray, wrinkled gnome" whose interviewing technique consisted of droning on about himself instead of asking questions; the black male reporter who went behind Nelson...
...verities. Convinced that her husband is having an affair with one or more of his undergraduates, she leaves him and seeks solace in the arms of various potential lovers. These include Lily, a chic bisexual who is exploring the butch-femme aesthetic, Martin, a Belgian electronics dealer and her dentist, Dr. Lipi...
Unsurprisingly, she is an incompetent adulteress. Her advances are rebuffed, except by the dentist, with whom she has an unsatisfying (and unprotected) sexual encounter. Suitably chastened, she seeks in an orgy of expiation to redeem herself by returning to the long-suffering Edward, who as further evidence of his perfection, takes her back. A rapturous reconciliation on his desk proves that faculty offices do have some charm...
...tell a story, which means pondering what the story really is. One character is Kimberly, beguilingly played by Robin Morse. Another is a generic gay man (Richard Bekins), one of thousands whose death attracted far less attention than the five traceable to health-care errors, all by the same dentist. In a pivotal outburst, the third character (Jon DeVries), representing the playwright, recalls his brother's death in an auto accident before seat belts were standard. Technology that would have saved him had been developed, but the public was not yet ready for it to be imposed. Thus Blessing grasps...
...three previous promises to give up. "No one at our place is holding his breath," says FBI special agent Dick Swensen. Instead the FBI is continuing its psychological warfare. At all hours, agents blast harrowing noises out of loudspeakers -- the squeals of rabbits being slaughtered, the whine of a dentist's drill, the thunder of locomotives -- presumably in the hope that the Davidians might yield just to get some peace and quiet...