Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yankee Dollars. In Maracaibo, Venezuela, Javier Gonzalez' dentist grabbed him on the street, took back the gold teeth Javier had not paid...
...into episodes from his raffish life, it is clear that he is queer about a lot of other things, too-notably small steamboats, chaffinches, a girl called Yvette, and an uncle with the improbable name of Melchizedek. Desmond begins his maniacally brilliant reveries after a gaseous bout at the dentist's, where he acquires new crockery, i.e., false teeth, and a desire to rehash every event in a bizarre, vagrant life...
Bits of Stone. From the first page in the dentist's chair, where his false fangs are shattered like a "cheap teacup," to the last, where his skull is shattered by a junkman's hardware, it is never quite clear whether or not these are real events or visions induced by laughing gas. Like Baudelaire's true voyagers who leave for the sake of leaving, Desmond travels a long way sitting down. What is real is the poetry. Desmond's train at first seems actual enough, with slogans penciled "by obscenely-minded orangemen": "To Hell with...
...other principals range from good to mediocre. Wendell Ede and Ray Reinhardt as the dentist and the schoolmaster are both fine, and most of the other male leads are adequate, but the performance of the women do not come up to the standards set by the men. Robert Skinner's sets, on the other hand, are outstanding. His oft-visited street presents a facade of the town's buildings, and the facade lifts for the scenes taking place in the dentist's office, a peasant hut, a hotel room, the town prison, and a restaurant across the border. Each...
...Gary Middlecoff, burly dentist playing in his first tournament since undergoing a hernia operation last fall, handily won the St. Petersburg (Fla.) open with a 72-hole total of 275, three strokes better than Runner-Up Pete Cooper...