Word: dentistly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...know each other as well as we do ourselves," says Mario Sanchez, a dentist at the local Veterans Administration hospital. He points over at former Merchant Marine Charlie Antigua, who at 97 is the oldest member of the group. "See Charlie there. He likes his dentures real tight. He says he has a new girlfriend." Across the table, Pedro Tomas Lopez, 76, reminisces about his early days as a rabble-rousing union organizer in the cigar factories. "The bosses would fire me when they found out who I was," he says with a satisfied grin...
...scenes must be arranged, dialogue concocted and interior monologues imagined. Rybakov's technique is no different from that of other popular novelists who incorporate historical figures into their books. Like most, he succeeds best when his imagination runs freest. A case in point: a scene in which Stalin's dentist, a competent though nervous practitioner, finds himself in the unenviable position of handling the bite that feeds...
...treated for bronchitis and an eye infection. "When I finally learned what I had, it was such a relief that I just sat there and cried," she says. Despite such sagas, experts are concerned that TMJ is being overdiagnosed. "Any vague symptom above the chest has become TMJ," charges Dentist Charles Greene, co-director of Northwestern University's TMJ clinic, one of the dozens devoted to facial and jaw pain that have sprung up nationwide. Greene is especially skeptical of those who attribute such varied complaints as dizziness, loss of hearing and blurred vision to the jaw condition. Warns Greene...
...voice. Hawthorne spoke about Hester Prynne by narrating her story. Updike allows Sarah to speak for herself by assuming her voice in as direct a way as possible. As an epistolary novel, S. enables Updike to be privy to Sarah's psyche, whether she is addressing her accountant, her dentist, her hairdresser or her family...
...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...