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...most postpolio experts favor a competing theory that says wear and tear on the nerves is to blame. Polio initially attacks the nerves by invading the body through the mouth or nose, traveling through the bloodstream to the spinal cord and lodging in the nerve cells that control muscle activity. As the disease progresses, nerve cells in the spinal cord are damaged or killed, paralyzing muscles that lead to the arms, legs, stomach and chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reliving Polio | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...Almodovar movie, which will be released in New York in May. We think Almodovar is great; we concede that he's misogynistic, but we like him anyway. His movies are always really nice looking with lots of bright colors. That one actress he uses, the one with the crooked nose, has a weird and compelling face worthy of Fellini. She will be in the new movie, whose title we can't remember. Even better, Gaultier and Versace will be doing the costuming. Caramba...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Take the G-Train | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

Dressed in a black sari accented by a "Brooklyn" necklace, other gold chains, heavy gold earrings and a nose-ring, the unconventional guru spoke in a thick Brooklyn accent about death and caring for the terminally...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: Ma Jaya Speaks at Divinity School | 3/22/1994 | See Source »

BILLY CLEARY '56 HAS A BIG NOSE...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: The Sports Column | 3/22/1994 | See Source »

...much to say to us as any great piece of theater. It's never been an overriding ambition of mine to become what they call in Britain a classical actor. It's been a number of people's ambition on my behalf -- but that's just because of my nose. I was given a nose they couldn't wait to put into various costumes and move around the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Dashing Daniel | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

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