Word: facials
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...only sets, now Rosi gives us the dramatic Spanish countryside; instead of a skeletal chorus we have a carousing corps of dancing peasant women. The film adds to the opera's sensuality without detracting from its heart. Save for the Flower Song scene, Rosi carefully avoids relying on facial close-ups and gestures which--though a necessary cinemagraphic technique--would have been absent from a stage version. In Carmen, the music's the thing...
...tightening my head in a vise." She finally found relief with calcium channel blockers, originally developed for heart patients. Antidepressive drugs like the tricyclics are frequently recommended for shingles and chronic lower-back pain. Antiseizure medications like Dilantin, commonly used to treat epilepsy, can help calm the spasmlike facial pain of trigeminal neuralgia...
Surgery may also be appropriate in cases of the severe facial pain known as trigeminal neuralgia, or tic douloureux. For 16 years, Dr. Mat Boname, 81, of Oxford, N.Y., suffered this excruciating pain, despite the efforts of five doctors. Finally, a delicate operation in which electrically induced heat was used to destroy a facial nerve brought relief. The effect was immediate, he says: "When I came up from the operating room, I had no pain...
...wiggling backward out of a cancan skirt), sexual invitation (in the bumps and grinds of a vulgar parody of some black choreography), and grace (in the irregular, Twyla Tharpish movements created for her by Director-Choreographer Alan Johnston). She highlights the dances' meaning with a panoply of facial expressions: she may be the best mugger since Lucille Ball...
...died when his car was run off the road by enraged rednecks. Did die, clinically, the legend has it; doctors brought him back from beyond the edge. Should have died, probably; his life since then has been a washout. This is not because of his injuries, which left a facial scar but did no other permanent damage. It is because, as Novelist Rosellen Brown sketches him, he is temperamentally unsuited to be anything but the star of a protest movement...