Word: novocain
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...stubborn caprice. With a Gatsby crippled by such a dismal Daisy, the movie must be sustained by its secondary characters. There is little enough strength there. As Daisy's friend Jordan Baker, Lois Chiles seems to be fighting off unsuccessfully the effects of a massive dose of Novocain. George Wilson, the poor garage man who kills Gatsby, and his wife Myrtle are impersonated by Scott Wilson and Karen Black in little bursts of lunatic melodrama...
Like a dental patient who worries that one shot of Novocain will not get him through the drilling, international moneymen last week warily eyed the second dollar devaluation in 14 months, skeptical about how long its crisis-numbing effects would last. At week's end the signs were discouraging...
...answer must be met with a Sophie-like acedia from the viewer. This pseudoexistential drama is the celluloid version of novocain, deadening whatever-or whomever-it touches. Events are talked about, not shown. Sophie deals in fatuous aphorisms ("Answering services are for muffling the services of the dying"). Her acquaintances reply with even more glittering zircons. One character, admiring a pair of inexpensive Italian shoes, hoots, "What multitudes we recline...
...with their boy friends or mothers or fathers or all alone," she said. After an examination and blood tests, Alice was given an explanation of the procedure, birth control information and a tranquilizer. Then she was escorted to an operating room, where a doctor gave her a shot of Novocain; the vacuum-aspiration abortion itself, though painful, took only five minutes. Alice rested in a recovery room, chatted with other young women who had undergone the same experience. "Most of us had been very tense," she said, "but now we were relaxed, and we were laughing and saying we never...
...Scherbaum's soul, however, is an unnamed man in tennis shoes: Starusch's dentist. Starusch has an overshot underjaw. Pain and multiple appointments are involved. Along with other local anaesthetics, the dentist maintains a diversionary TV set on his wall. As a modern opiate it is not far behind Novocain and the ultra-high-speed drill...