Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cuckolded Dentist. Wood frightened his colleagues too. First the Old Vic, then the Royal Court wanted little part of him. He found them, in turn, unbearably clubby. He decided to go into television. "I played the classics," he says. "I thought it was the way to build a reputation, but the audience got tired of me." By 1967 Wood was tired too. "I thought I'd never find a playwright whose work I liked." Then he was sent Teeth, a television comedy by an unknown named Tom Stoppard. Wood played a cuckolded dentist who turned his rival...
...Poitier's colleagues in the underground is an incompetent Indian dentist who is described as "deeply committed." Comments Caine with a resigned sneer: "A deeply committed Indian dentist? That sounds like all the people I hate at cocktail parties...
...advised us not to sleep too near the lake because it was very cold, and indeed, we almost perished, reading thrillers by candlelight in the tent. Anyway, the shack that served as rest rooms was the wonderful thing about the place. Absolutely spotless, immaculate, and furnished in Alaskan dentist's office splendour. Shivering from the woods with pine-smeared toothbrush, you enter a room with a mirror in the shape of a crucifix. The walls are neatly papered with church directories, to worship at the place of your choice, which in this case was every Lutheran Church within 100 miles...
...compares favorably with a hotel vacation. Among the leading charterers are the Moorings (33 boats), Antilles Yachting Services (23), Fleet Indigo (14), Abaco Bahamas Charters (12) and Stevens Yachts (10). The oldest and largest firm is Caribbean Sailing Yachts, Inc., founded in 1967 by a sea-obsessed New Jersey dentist named Dr. John van Ost. C.S.Y. has 94 boats at its three bases -Abaco in the Bahamas, Tortola in the B. V.I. and St. Vincent, far south in the Windward Islands. Last year about 31,000 people chartered from these firms. To discover the joys-and tribulations -of bareboating, TIME...
...Feathers (Random House; $7.95) is a series of sketches that show the author as a gentle practitioner of the short-haired shaggy-dog story. Most of them should be read as experiments rather than as polished pieces of comic ingenuity. One essay, for example, "If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists," imagines that Vincent Van Gogh is a dentist obsessed with bridgework and X rays as art for art's sake...