Word: facials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without the tranquilizers used by Mesdames Carpenter and Van der Heuvel. And unlike her West Wing counterpart, Ron Ziegler, Connie attempts to answer all questions, though she does not hesitate, with a theatrical roll of her eyes, to show her disapproval of certain queries. Because of her mugging and facial contortions, the "Washington Witches" (the British nickname given the Washington women's press corps for its relentless pursuit of Prince Charles and Princess Anne) have dubbed these press conferences "the Connie Stuart Show." But the Witches grant that Connie tries hard, and that if she does not know something...
That leaves Danny Kaye with rather more than he can salvage. Kaye is not naturally funny but more of a stunt-man of humor who relies on glib footwork, a glibber tongue and a foxy aptitude for facial contortions. He has had to subdue these in Two By Two and concentrate on just being liked. He works long and arduously at it, and he is liked. And pitied. At show's end he is supposed to be 601 years old, and few in the opening-night audience felt appreciably younger...
...traveler returning to America from a distant land, comments Philip E. Slater in The Pursuit of Loneliness, "is struck first of all by the grim monotony of American facial expressions-hard, surly, and bitter- and by the aura of deprivation that informs them. One goes abroad forewarned against exploitation by grasping foreigners, but nothing is done to prepare the returning traveler for the fanatical acquisitiveness of his compatriots. It is difficult to become reaccustomed to seeing people already weighted down with possessions acting as if every object they did not own were bread with held from a hungry mouth...
...affected side of the face sags, the eyebrow droops and the mouth hangs open. The victim of facial paralysis, which results from damage to facial nerves by injury or surgery, often finds it difficult to eat or speak and impossible to close one eye. Worse, he loses the ability to communicate by facial expression, so that an attempt to smile may result in a terrifying grimace, an effort at laughter in the appearance of intense suffering. For many years, facial paralysis has been uncorrectable. Lately, however, surgeons have been experiencing success with several new operations...
...most effective and promising operations, now being performed by an increasing number of surgeons, actually repair the damaged facial nerve. Three techniques have been developed. One simply rejoins the ends of the severed nerve by means of sutures, much as surgeons rejoin damaged arteries or torn muscle tissues. Another, the nerve crossover, requires the use of an undamaged nerve-usually the hypoglossal nerve that controls tongue movement-to innervate facial muscles as well. The third and most difficult procedure is the autogenous nerve graft: surgeons remove a piece of nerve fiber from elsewhere in the patient's body...