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Goya's skill as a graphic artist was supreme--second only to his vivid imagination. He used an etched line and aquatint--a way of treating a plate with a grainy gum that results in variations in shade. With light and shade he highlights the horror of a hanged man's eyes or the sleazy expression of a prostitute's lips...
...staging a huge block party. "We danced those kids and we danced them until they fell over. We didn't stop until they were so exhausted they couldn't have picked up a bottle to throw to save their lives. We were holding this city together with bubble gum." In campaign jargon, this is "keeping the city quiet...
...Good Shepherd, he derided the complacent laity as "spiritual winte trash" who merely dropped by church to fill up at God's "gas pump." Punctuating ins sermons with words like damn, hell and bitch, he thundered against "gum-ball theology" and the "colonel syndrome" he found in both ins parisinoners and ins superiors. He announced that he had come to purge "game-playing" Catholics and forge the parish into a legitimate community of faith. Some 150 outraged families walked out. Those who stayed were not only immersed IN Quinlan's vision of community, but got season tickets...
...lightweight titanium bar with two long, threaded pins and up to seven shorter ones (see diagram). It is attached to the dense bone on the underside of the jaw where its short pins help hold it in place. The long pins pass through the mandible and protrude through the gum into the mouth. There they serve as abutments to winch a dental bridge can be fastened...
Some oral surgeons counsel caution on Small's staple, and Small inmself admits that he has encountered some minor gum infections in patients who have been fitted with the device. He also notes that there has been some slight resorption, or further deterioration, of the mandible of one patient who had a staple installed 61/2 years...