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...century. Boston Silversmith Paul Revere was well known for the quality of the false teeth he fashioned long before his midnight message to Massachusetts' minutemen. But today's many and various replacements, made of such space-age materials as Teflon, the nonstick plastic, and pyrolytic carbon, a diamond-hard substance, are far more sophisticated. Unlike earlier devices, which were worn outside the body and usually removed at night, they are true replacements, designed to be implanted permanently and to duplicate, if not actually improve upon nature. Some examples...
...Jewel. No one markets a movie better than Paramount's own odd couple (see boxes pages 88 and 89). An industrial-diamond-in-the-rough, Yablans, 38, orders the world around like a drill sergeant and employs a primal scream as casually as most people sneeze. The slight, agile Evans, 43, given to longpoint collars and cashmere sweaters, projects a kind of artless charm and wide-eyed aestheticism. But he is as obsessive about what he wants and is credited with being the figure who has, in show-business parlance, turned Paramount around. He runs day-to-day production...
...only 120 miles of paved highway, the C.A.R. (formerly the French colony of Ubangi-Shari) has long been one of Africa's most benighted backwaters, and shows every sign of remaining just that for a long time to come. Aside from its one lucrative industry, diamond mining, the country's most striking feature is its ruler, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, 53, a former sergeant in the French army who may be the continent's most brutal tyrant...
Bokassa's attempts to improve the livelihood of his people are not nearly as impressive as his efforts to keep them politically subdued. Last week the President celebrated his 53rd birthday by inaugurating, to the beat of tribal drums, a new diamond-cutting plant. But the $15 million in foreign exchange brought in by diamond production last year is the only bright spot in an otherwise abysmal economy. Fully 90% of the people still live outside the cash economy, while Bokassa too often devotes himself to showy but nonbasic ventures. For example, as part of his birthday celebration...
Albert Brooks, a cherubic 26-year-old with a curly halo, has a softer approach in recounting his adventures as the opening act at Neil Diamond and Richie Havens concerts. His album, Comedy Minus One, could even be taken home to Mother-provided Mother was reasonably aware of what gets smoked at rock concerts. Singer-Songwriter Martin Mull is the only newcomer who is literally a rock comic, laying his words on music. His hit record is in fact an instrumental called Dueling Tubas. His other folk-rock ditties include Ventriloquist Love ("Whenever I kiss you, your lips never move...