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...suggests, they can be left in place, provided X rays are taken twice a year to check on their behavior. One reason for Dr. Salman's conservatism regarding bony impactions is that removal of deeply embedded teeth sometimes has a distressing sequel: the patient's jaw feels numb for days, weeks or months...
Your left leg is numb and you got no feeling in the first three fingers of your right hand. We're suing for a million bucks and we'll settle for a quarter million-tax-free...
...gentlemen," he announces in a sepulchral tremolo, "it's just a question of money, but to me it's a personal tragedy." Willie plays it dirty. Before the insurance doctors examine his client, he needles his left leg and right arm with enough novocain to numb a mastodon. Willie plays it go, man, go. Borrowing against his hocus hopes, he picks up a fastback Mustang, a sackful of custom-tailored suits, a foxy set of fox furs for his fat-kneed wife. And when the insurance lawyers are ready to bargain, Willie makes them sit on wastebaskets...
...These numb people are suddenly intruded on by another couple, close friends of 40 years' standing. They claim to have been routed out of their own home by an onrush of mutual terror, left unexplained by Albee, and they propose to settle in. Words are exchanged and exchanged and exchanged, but no deeds, and the test of friendship ends with the familiar knowledge which unduly saddens Albee, that the self is a castle without a drawbridge...
...self-disgust that drive him to do such things. Suddenly their hearts are open, and their plain faces shine with the light of life. They kiss, they make love. But the moment passes and the mess remains. In the morning Adolfo heads for home. "Thank you," he says in numb conclusion, "for a very nice...