Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduated amounts, usually until he confesses or-passes out. Another technique is "the telephone," in which the torturer continuously slaps the prisoner on the ear with a cupped hand, often rupturing the eardrum. A failed dental student, now a Rio policeman, has refined still another technique. The "mad dentist," as he is known, straps a prisoner into his dentist's chair, drills until he hits a nerve and keeps probing until the victim agrees to cooperate. Then he fills the cavity, leaving no outward evidence...
...surprising, therefore, that 16 members of the M*A*S*H cast and crew, including Sally and John Schuck (who played Painless the priapic dentist), are now happily reunited in Houston shooting Altman's next film, Brewster McCIoud. Altman says that it is "an adult fairy tale'' about a man who lives in the Astrodome and learns to fly. "It's about insanity. It's about cruelty; but the main physical substance is bird s..t." And the droppings (made by prop men from sour cream, mustard and paint) are as plentiful as the blood...
...around, no peacock, no eagle was secure. In their Broadway show, An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, they did scenes in the style of O'Neill, and Batman, Proust, Pirandello and Noel Coward. Each swatch of material had a shiny button?as when Nichols, playing an English dentist, leans over his beloved patient: "I knew even then that I loved you. There, I've said it. I do love you. Let's not talk about it for a moment. Rinse out, please...
...checkups, required nursing-home care, rehabilitation services, dental care for all under 16, eye care and allowances for eyeglasses and prescription drugs. It retains a coinsurance feature, mainly to cut down overuse: the patient would pay $2 toward the cost of all visits to the doctor's or dentist's office after the first, which would be free. It would be financed under the Social Security system, with employers paying 3% of payrolls, the federal treasury matching this, and employees paying 1%. The Government would be free to contract with suppliers of medical care and would offer incentives...
...obscure Negro schoolteacher from Indianapolis has made surgical history. Louis B. Russell Jr. has surpassed the record for heart-transplant survival set by Cape Town Dentist Philip Blaiberg, who lived for 594 days after his operation. Although Blaiberg was depicted as being hale and hearty as a Rotarian greeter, a recent book by his widow reveals that he was miserably uncomfortable, if not downright ill during most of his life with his new heart. Russell, who at week's end had survived 603 days, appears to be in far better shape than Blaiberg...