Word: facials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare, disruptive cliques and factions almost nonexistent. Figuratively and literally, no man walks alone in the antarctic. By sheer necessity men pair off and assume responsibility for each other's welfare under the "buddy system.'' Each depends on the other for everything from detection of facial frostbite (the victim seldom feels it) to help when the hours hang heavy and the winter night stretches ahead into infinity. Few men who have lived such a life come from it unchanged...
...which no such excuse can be offered. The language is seldom precise and sometimes implausible. Chace writes, for example, "Justin returned to his shaving and tried to change his thoughts by applying alcohol and powder to his skin." Whether or not Justin is a solipsist, the relationship between his facial activity and his mental processes is extremely tenuous. The point is that the eye for detail is not the selective eye achieving an effect on the reader, but the indiscriminate camera throwing together instants unrelated both to each other and to any apparent overall objective. Then, too, there...
George Gobel: "He is the wide-eyed innocent looking ... at a frustrating world. His seven-year-old gestures, facial expressions and reactions must be kept 'in the act.' But ... he is not entitled to indulge in the completely unbridled regression to infancy that is allowed Jerry Lewis...
...thanked his doctors for repairing his facial burns. "Take a look at my face," he said. "Nearly perfect, isn't it?" Except for the eye pads, a reddish patch on his right cheek was the only apparent trace of the attack. "And to think that acid bleached the sidewalk," he said. The familiar Riesel mustache was missing, he explained, only for surgical convenience. Actually, he added, "acid makes the hair grow. I think I'll patent it as a hair restorer and sell it to bald newspapermen...
Chronic heavy drinking can and does alter facial features; and it produces no Olympic winners, except in bobsledding. But an occasional beer is harmless. If legal restrictions were limited to heavy drinking, popular support might make effective enforcement more possible. If a large segment of bartenders' sales were made legal, they might join with the law in preserving the health of the beardless minor. And by robbing drinking of the romantic character given by its illegality, heavy consumption might decrease...