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...outer office amid the grossly outdated copies of People, Architectural Digest and the Harvard Alumni Magazine? Have you ever nervously fidgeted there listening to the whirling drill just a pressboard wall away? Have you ever taken long, deep breaths to fight off panic while anticipating future pain in the dentist's chair? I have. We all have. It is that terrifying fear of anticipated horror that impels me to write...
...Flashin ' 'n ' Dancin '. Jennifer Beals and John Travolta. A dentist and a C.P.A...
...there is the capacity for the hard, calculating decision: in July, after a 24-year career, Dawkins resigned from the Army, wife Judi in attendance at the farewell ceremony at Fort Myer, Va. The move did not surprise his parents, Henry, a dentist now retired, and Frances, who lives in a condominium in Bloomfield Hills, a comfortable Detroit suburb not far from Royal Oak, where Pete grew up. Says Frances: "He said there was an optimum age to make a change, and this...
Congressman Daniel Crane, 47, in a brief written apology, said, "I'm sorry that I made a mistake. I'm human, and in no way did I violate my oath of office. I only hope my wife and children will forgive me." Crane, a dentist from Danville, came to Capitol Hill in 1979. A year later, he and a female House page, then 17, had sex four or five times at his suburban apartment. The page, testifying that she "found the Congressman as an older man very attractive," admitted that she was "perhaps more responsible for the sexual...
...being a lampoon of conservative Midwestern farmers and their wives, American Gothic is, as she points out, "not about farmers, not about a married couple, and not a satire." Thirty-two years' difference in age lay between its models, Wood's sister Nan and a Cedar Rapids dentist named McKeeby. The subject of American Gothic is in fact a small-town Midwesterner and his unmarried daughter, and once this is seen, the details of the painting fall into shape, as Wood meant them: the pitchfork becomes a scepter of paternal authority, a weapon for fending off suitors...