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...married?" "No," the patient replies. "Any children?" She shakes her head. "Does your nose ever turn red?" She furrows her eyebrows thoughtfully and answers, "Yes, sometimes." "Aha," says Stubs. "Does it turn red when it's cold outside?" The girl thinks for a moment, then says, decisively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City Treating The Funny Bone | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...Want to try again?" She holds her breath as the second hand advances and bites her cheeks while Stubs tickles her with a paper flower. But when Stubs gives the girl's mother a rubber clown nose in a red-nose "transplant," the tiny patient erupts with laughter. For a few moments, at least, Dorothy's mind is off the pain and trauma of being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City Treating The Funny Bone | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...humor. Christensen once paid a call on a teenage boy who was sitting by a window with his head lowered. He kept it down as Stubs conducted his exam. "I asked, 'Have you ever had your funny bone examined?' " Christensen recalls. "He said nothing. 'Does your nose ever turn red?' No answer. 'Are you ticklish?' And then, with his head still down, the boy asked, 'Are you retarded?' I said no. 'Then why don't you act like a normal doctor?' I said, - 'Because I'm not a normal doctor.' He looked up, saw my costume and sighed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City Treating The Funny Bone | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

Johnson was dropped for a one-yard loss on the next play. Lazarre-White had no room to escape from nose tackle Pete Chapman, who registered a five-yard sack: And on 3rd-and-17, Restic reached into his bag of tricks to pull out the old end-around, which added only two yards to receiver Rodney Taylor's careerrushing stats...

Author: By M.d. Stankiewicz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Inoffensive Offense | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...dwarfs were invested with numinous power, along with jaguars and eagles. Another is the 7th century stucco head from the Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque, which is clearly a portrait, perhaps of the ruler Pacal II. Yet even in this effigy of an individual, the great bladelike nose and the forward sweep of the headdress like the comb of a cockatoo suggest a hieratic type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Onward From Olmec: Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries, | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

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