Word: eyelids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named Terror. One scene required her to climb a high fence, and she notes, with satisfaction, that she rejected the director's offer of a double. She has a daredevil's face, marked by a scar that runs from the bridge of her once broken nose, across her right eyelid and down nearly to her cheekbone ?the result of too many falls in playgrounds. Not long ago, she finished filming Orphan Train, a CBS-TV movie, in which she plays a little girl who runs away from her job as a thief in a whorehouse...
...personal p.r. man) irritates some of his colleagues, admitted that the operation was not up to his usual high standards but insisted that it was "cosmetically acceptable." Instead, he attacked O'Hare as perennially dissatisfied, schizoid and a cosmetic-surgery junkie. She has had nine nose jobs, an eyelid lift, a face lift and hair transplant, said Bellin, who had performed two of those operations, as well as eyelid surgery for her boyfriend...
Cosmetic surgery does not come cheap. A facelift costs upwards of $1,500 (Betty Ford's fee was about $3,200), eyelid surgery runs around $1,500. The cost is generally not covered by medical insurance (though it is tax deductible). Then too some risk is involved; some faces are changed for the worse. Warns Dr. Peter McKinney, a Chicago plastic surgeon: "If you buy a bum toaster, you can take it back. You can't take your face back...
...deep freeze for at least two weeks and still live. But then he'd give you that quick thaw. A wink with one of those eyes was just like two cymbals coming together in a clash. He'd forgiven me in one flick of the eyelid...
Philip's head remains the object of thoughtful, disinterested scrutiny, like Cezanne's apple, but much more mysterious. There are the signs of age and stress: an eyelid droops, the gaze is not quite focused. There is the vast dignity: no real head, seen in isolation, could possibly envelop itself in such distances as Velásquez's painted fiction...