Word: facials
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious manipulation; filmed interviews with the parents of eight-month-old dead babies, singers so crippled they need straps to stay in their wheelchairs, Chad Everett weeping. A man with no upper-body movement who says he only wants to hug another human again; a man with frozen facial muscles who says he wants only to smile. Jerry Lewis, talking about how long he's spent in this crusade, and then stage-whispering, "I got to get a dollar more than last year...I would like this telethon not to happen, but until this scourge is eradicated, it will...
...Studies have shown that 30% to 45% of infants born to women who drink upwards of 3 oz. of pure alcohol daily (the equivalent of six or more cocktails) have a set of defects known collectively as fetal alcohol syndrome. Its ravages include mental retardation, growth deficiencies and distinctive facial features. Similar problems occur in about 10% of the babies born to women who consume 1 to 2 oz. of alcohol...
...endangered sperm whale was used for years in everything from facial cream to transmission fluid. In 1973 interstate sale of the oil was banned in the U.S., but substitutes, including certain fish and vegetable oils, have also been hard to come...
...centuries, but consciousness of it surely has. A spate of books like this season's Reading Faces and last decade's popular Body Language have explored the individual's tendency to broadcast things (unconsciously and otherwise) through all manner of physical movement and facial gymnastics. Such matters, made widely familiar by pop sociology, anthropology and psychology, have become the stuff of common conversation. Michael Korda's Power! How to Get It, How to Use It, like other books of this ilk, is mainly a primer in how to manipulate others by a cold-blooded control...
...child is born with a putty face: gaping hole for a mouth, eyes spaced widely apart, the facial bones not yet developed. Another, born without any bone in his nose, has nostrils projecting forward so grotesquely that his face resembles that of a pig. A third youngster loses his jawbone in an accident, and, as a result, his teeth are about to fall...