Word: facelifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...string of cosmetic admissions in the '70s by public figures. Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, for one, issued a press release about his hair transplant and may have had an eyelift too. There has also been news of hair transplants for Frank Sinatra, Roy Clark and Strom Thurmond, a facelift for Jackie Gleason, face and breast architectural work for Cher, an eyelift, facelift and breast reduction for Phyllis Diller, and there is a growing national tendency to regard cosmetic surgery as a badge of sophistication, rather than of vanity...
Performed under local or general anesthesia, the facelift is a delicate operation lasting three to four hours. The surgeon begins by making an uninterrupted incision that starts at the temple, runs down the front of the ear, under the earlobe and behind the ear. Whenever possible, the incision is placed above the hairline so the scar is not readily visible. The skin is then separated away or "undermined" from the underlying muscle and fat and pulled taut to eliminate folds and bags. Finally, the excess skin is trimmed away and the flap of skin is sewed back into place...
...meantime, quarterback Larry Brown was skillfully directing a new-look Harvard offense, one that had received a drastic facelift at the hands of Dr. Joe Restic during the previous week's practice sessions...
...open 24 hr. Supermarket-like duty-free shops selling wide range of goods. Refinements include animal hostel, dramatic society that rehearses and performs in the airport's underground chapel, a legendary bowler-hatted ghost who supposedly turns up in emergencies. Minihospital. European Terminal 2 is receiving $20 million facelift. Overall: friendly, frumpish...
Whether the facelift represents anything more than just that is still an open question. The Herald has long been known for its occasionally inaccurate reporting, and that tendency has apparently not yet changed. Earlier this year, the Herald reported that Yale President Kingman Brewster was about to resign and would be replaced by a current dean, who would become the university's first woman president. Although not the result of a Crimson parody of the Yale Daily News, it sounded like it might have been. Last week, in a story billed as an exclusive from its Washington bureau, the Herald...