Word: novocain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telling you all this?"; "I hate men, they degrade you for being a female"; "I crave nothingness . . . not to die, to live! To become! To find myself!" The stars complement the dialogue. The shrink should be dosed with adrenaline; Torn plays him as if he were shot with Novocain. Sally Kirkland, the Susan B. Anthony of the new nudity, mercilessly displays a Vogueish figure that looks more erotic dressed than undressed. Viveca Lindfors, like her fellow supporting players, adopts the familiar rock musicians' motto: Loud is Good...
From Unborn Lambs. In Europe, said Dorman, the "rejuvenators" hold forth, promising to "make you young again" or revitalize a "wornout" part of the body. He cited Rumania's Dr. Anna Asian, who claims to restore senile and decrepit patients with injections of procaine (Novocain) and vitamins. American patients have tried the treatment with no medically provable benefits. If Asian's claims were true, says Dr. Nathan Shock of the National Institutes of Health, "you'd be adding ten years to your life every time the dentist filled a tooth...
...never seen any girl take a worse fall," said French Ski Coach Honoré Bonnet. "I didn't expect her to get up again." Nancy got up all right-with a badly bruised right elbow and a broken coccyx. Three days later, her right arm shot full of Novocain, ski pole taped to her glove, she raced in the giant slalom and finished fourth...
...press conference for Hollywood Ingénue Katharine Houghton, 22, and she got things going by demurely introducing her aunt. So much for Katharine Houghton. Her aunt turned out to be Katharine Hepburn, 60. And for the rest of the interview, young Katharine sat awed as auntie discoursed on Novocain-free dentistry ("A little pain builds your character"), her campaign cap ("I was in the Confederate army"), and the acting simplicity of her late, longtime co-star Spencer Tracy ("a baked potato"). Not quite forgetting the purpose of the conference, Hepburn did offer a few professional words about her remarkably...
...downhill, she slammed into a snow-packed retaining wall at 60 m.p.h., badly bruising her right arm. "She couldn't even lift her arm," recalls her coach, Verne Anderson, "but we couldn't keep her out of the giant slalom, so the doctor shot her full of Novocain, and I taped her ski pole to her glove." Nancy finished fourth, only 2.7 sec. behind Winner Marielle Goitschel...