Word: dermatologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heavy sentences. Someone tries to ice Maximum Bob with a unique weapon: a hungry alligator. There is a long enemies list, including Leanne, the judge's loony wife; Dale Crowe, the latest victim of his warped justice; Dale's murderous uncle Elvin; and Dr. Tommy Vasco, a former dermatologist with a skinful of booze and drugs. Maximum Bob's survival depends on Kathy Baker, an attractive young probation officer. She and the rest of the cast provide a few entertaining moments for diehard fans. All others should wait until Leonard takes early retirement from the police farce...
There is no excuse for this. Other professions have meetings of unpredictable length and accommodate by not overbooking. Surgery and emergencies? Pshaw, the last time I squatted forever in a waiting room, it was for a dermatologist. The doctor keeps you waiting because he has power over you, like a bureaucrat in Bulgaria in the old days. Indeed, visiting the doctor's office is like a taste of socialism -- the crowded waiting room with little to read but hectoring posters, the feeling of helplessness, the endless forms to fill out. Which is ironic, since the typical doctor's office...
...Dermatologist Paul Lazar of Northwestern University Medical School found that women use 17 to 21 grooming products every morning...
...contributing to the rise in skin cancer. While there is little evidence to support this notion, scientists agree that in the long run a diminished ozone layer will cause trouble. "Decreased ozone will increase numbers of basal- and squamous-cell carcinomas," says Dr. Stanford Lamberg, a Johns Hopkins dermatologist. "There is no question about that...
...purest specimens of the spongelike species that plunged into extinction is Andrei Gromyko, the perennial Foreign Minister who worked with every Soviet leader from Stalin to Gorbachev and conveniently died last year as he fell from grace. Revealingly, his book is relentlessly unrevealing. Of the dermatologist's nightmare that was Stalin's pockmarked face, Gromyko writes, "I don't recall ever seeing any" scars...