Word: eyelidded
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...Laszlo Toth's brain when he climbed over the guardrail of the chapel of the Pieta in St. Peter's Basilica and started battering with his hammer at the Madonna's resigned stone arm, the folded veil, the nose, the translucent shell of her left eyelid. But one may guess: Toth had lost all power to distinguish between an image and the reality it denotes...
...eyes might hold him back professionally and made a quick decision after he saw what Dr. Kurt Wagner, a Beverly Hills surgeon, did for his girl friend. "I told Wagner: 'I want what you did to Jan.' " A week later, he underwent a three-hour, $800 blepharoplasty (eyelid operation). "Now," jokes Holmes, "I look into the mirror every morning and say: 'God you're beautiful...
...Lift for Men The Orient is not the only place where loss of face is avoided at all costs. Western women for years have been paying plastic surgeons to smooth over the wrinkles of time. Men, however, have usually accepted the inevitability of the sagging jowl, droopy eyelid and other facial evidence of aging...
...Fixing turkey-gobbler necks costs about $500; smoothing out cheeks runs an estimated $1,250 to $1,500, while eyelid surgery costs from $600 to $1,000, and a full face-lift (rhytidectomy) can cost up to $2,500. Most of the males who pay those prices are in their 40s or 50s, and many of them are separated or divorced. For the married, the operation has hazards as well as benefits. Warns Hardin: "One of the aftereffects of a face-lift is often divorce...
...first lesson from Nader and Co. is how to avoid buying a trouble-plagued car. Nader suggests that the cautious purchaser should steer away from delicate options like automatic speed controls, eyelid headlamp covers, power windows and power antenna-all of which have a high frequency-of-repair record. But heavy-duty suspension, says the book, is "a must, even for urban driving." The buyer should hire an outside mechanic to check over the car before accepting delivery from a dealer...