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...grotesque caricature of its former civility. When Bombeck was several months pregnant with Andrew, the family moved to a tract development a few miles from Dayton that she was to satirize as "Suburbian Gems." Its real name is Centerville. The Bombecks lived on Cushwa Drive ("probably named for some dentist") in a house like all the others except for one prized interior feature, a $1,500 "two-way" fireplace, and on the outside, a front door they painted red so that Mother Erma and Tom Harris could find them when they visited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erma in Bomburbia: Erma Bombeck | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...another, we have all felt it. If it were a color, we would say it comes in a thousand shades, from vivid reds to somber browns. There is the quick, flashing smart of a ringer scorched by a flame or the grinding torment of the dentist's drill striking close to a nerve. We all know the dull throb of a stubbed toe that sends us hippity-hopping from foot to foot in search of distraction. And many have felt the pain that cuts deeper: the gut-clutching agony that we awaken to after surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlocking Pain's Secrets | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...zeal to catalogue power." University of Connecticut President John DiBiaggio warned, "we threaten to subdivide the university into ineffectiveness." A dentist by training and a leading authority on preventive dentistry. DiBiaggio suggested an easy route to failure. "As with other forms of impotence," he said, "worry can create the problem...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Checks and Balances | 6/5/1984 | See Source »

Trip To the Dentist...

Author: By Camille M. Caesar, | Title: Court Modifies Title IX | 3/1/1984 | See Source »

While warming up just before the match, the Crimson's number-two player, All-American Richard Jackson, chipped his tooth and had to rush off to the dentist's office. Without time to reshuffle the lineup. Harvard Coach Dave Fish sent freshman Joe Dowling, usually the first alternate, up against Navy's second player, Tim Tinney...

Author: By Benjamin R. Reder, | Title: Racquetmen Shut Out Navy | 12/2/1983 | See Source »

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