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...statistics and the standings is probably being exaggerated. Traditionalists at first appalled by Gary Hogeboom's record-tying five touchdown passes in Colts livery were surprised to find out that the 22-year-old record did not belong to Johnny Unitas, as anyone might expect, but to a dentist who used to back him up, Gary Cuozzo. Anthony Allen's record 255 yards' worth of Redskins receptions left Charley Taylor's and Bobby Mitchell's historical places undisturbed; Newcomer Gary Clark had set the all-time standard just last year...
They are rehearsing in excruciating detail how they will respond the next time the boss ushers them to a low couch and works over their egos like the mad dentist in Little Shop of Horrors...
Almost every working day, wherever he is in the world, Cosby receives an express-mail packet or a courier bearing checks: for the dentist, for college tuition, groceries, sculptures; he personally signs them all. Almost unique among major entertainment couples, Cosby and his wife Camille very seldom grant power of attorney to their business managers. This practice dates from Cosby's acrimonious breakup with a manager in the mid-'70s. At restaurants and shops, Cosby pays cash. Even on major purchases like real estate, he shuns financing. "For people from a lower economic background," he explains, "it means...
...there's a strict-looking guy. He's the principal of the United States of America." On Fawn Hall, Jessica Hahn and Donna Rice: "I love the way they describe these women as part-time models. I brush my teeth every morning -- does that make me a part-time dentist?" On Princess Di: "With twelve bodyguards around her all the time, how could she possibly have an affair? 'Where are you going, honey?' 'Just out to christen a battleship, dear...
...copies of Good Housekeeping and other U.S. publications. THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING says a notice in English. Nearby, stacked pamphlets, also in English, extol the virtues of resin-bonded ceramic fillings. Soft music from a San Diego radio station fills the room. It could easily be an American dentist's office. Indeed, in some ways that is exactly what it is. Like many other dentists, doctors, opticians and pharmacists in Tijuana, Goldstein relies on Americans, several coming from as far away as San Francisco, for a growing part of her business...