Word: nearsightedness
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He never had to be forced or enticed to learn. He never got an F. His main problems during 16 school years were diagraming sentences in grade school and trying to take part in too many activities in high school. His diagraming difficulties came to an end when it was...
As in Neighbors, situations can always get worse, and funnier. Beeler's son Tony, a nearsighted weight lifter, defends his mother's honor by slugging a rude Millville cop. This, in turn, makes it more difficult for Tony to court Eva, Bullard's buxom 13-year-old...
...Among the A.A.O.'s concerns about R/K is the fact that results can vary widely from surgeon to surgeon. In addition, little is known about the long-term impact of R/K: patients may ultimately be high-risk candidates for cataracts or other problems. "R/K decreases the amount of nearsightedness in virtually every case," concedes Dr. George Waring of Emory University, "but the decrease is not predictable." Waring, who chairs a five-year study on 500 R/K patients for the National Eye Institute, has found that the procedure is "pretty safe" if done by a competent surgeon. But until more...
The Mr. Magoo cartoons were as simple and nearsighted as their subject. The Flintstones might just as well have been on radio. Ralph Bakshi seemingly made The Lord of the Rings with tracing paper and a Xerox machine. Now even the Disney organization is preoccupied with wooing the nation'...
One wishes that could be said for Ted Knight and Too Close for Comfort (ABC, Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.). As Mary Tyler Moore's Ted Baxter, Knight embodied a wonderful comic oaf: vain, inept and hilarious. In his new series he is just another henpecked husband, who...