Word: facials
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...examiners presented patient scenarios in rapid-fire sequence. A 45-year-old woman with persistent headaches. A 60-year-old man with unrelenting facial pain. A three-year-old child who has never been able to walk. We had to study the data, ask the right questions and make on-the-spot diagnoses. Our interlocutors had finely tuned poker faces and were instructed to give absolutely no feedback. I had no idea if they thought I was the greatest neurosurgeon who ever lived or totally out to lunch...
...BEVERLY HILLS: You're not about to squander your precious appointment at the Beverly Hills Hotel Spa, tel: (1-310) 887 2505, on a quick massage. Instead, book the caviar firming facial?a favorite of the spa's celebrity-studded clientele, and a snip at $270. Caviar extract is used instead of actual roe: save the latter for the evening's hors d'oeuvres...
...PARIS: The spa at the fashionable Le Meurice Hotel, tel: (33-1) 4458 1010, is stocked with products by Caudalie?the skincare range based on grape-seed extract (a powerful antioxidant). Book the Vinosource Riche facial ($160) and you'll also get rubbed down with freshly squeezed grapes, leaving your skin as soft as a vintage merlot...
Considering that spas are supposed to be about pampering, it's odd that so many of them deal in unalluring stuff like mud facials and seaweed wraps. How about something more in keeping with the luxurious surroundings and sky-high prices? Realizing that not everyone wants to be smeared in algae or scoured with salt, some spas are offering therapies featuring[an error occurred while processing this directive] caviar, chocolate, even champagne. If you want to put the aah back in spa, skip the kelp masks and go straight for these top-dollar treatments. BEVERLY HILLS: You're not about...
Lasseter is an old hand at humanizing machines. Cars does it in large part with the detailing of "facial" features. Most car 'toons anthropomorphize their characters by having the headlights serve as the eyes. Lasseter, following a charming Disney short, the 1952 Susie, the Little Blue Coupe, made the windshield the eyes. Cars also has fun turning hood ornaments into mustaches, grilles into mouths. More important, it evokes shifts of mood by the subtle shift of body weight, the low growl of an engine...