Word: optometrist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excellent job in presenting both sides of laser eye surgery. As an optometrist, I am not recommending this procedure. History will teach us that the cornea is not a structure we can mess around with. The risks (e.g., current surgical mishaps and potentially devastating long-term complications) are simply not worth it. CLAYTON Y. GUSHIKEN, O.D. Honolulu...
This writing-class hero grew up in Paterson, N.J., the adopted son of an optometrist and a stagestruck housewife who performed in charity shows. Says Vilanch: "She'd sing, do sketches--she's naturally very funny--and I'd imitate her and her friends." At Ohio State he wrote reviews and appeared in plays. "I was going to be Neil Simon, batting out one Broadway show after another." Then he joined the Chicago Tribune as a reviewer-columnist. One night he met the young Midler and said, "You're very funny. You should talk more onstage." He began honing Midler...
...press conference announcing he'd be giving $1 million a year to child-abuse charities, he wept: he's got that gentle giant thing down. His vision is so bad (20/500) that his 1990 first baseman's Gold Glove award for defensive play sits in the office of his optometrist. He cried during Driving Miss Daisy. You want to hug this guy. Or at least get your arms as far around him as they...
...suddenly I noticed more and more people were showing up to section with glasses. In late-night jaunts to the laundry room, countless more wore spectacles, admitting that they are closet contact-lens wearers. Friends began to complain how their vacation time would be dominated by trips to the optometrist and to pick out frames. My poor vision, for once, was not at fault; that number of eyes cannot be wrong. Harvard dorms are dangerously dim and campus vision is at stake...
...seems brown--which is a lot like black. The darkness is creeping in, leaving me squinting inches from the page. Extensive searches of the halogen bulbs and considerations of the (negligible) overhead brightness have come up with nothing. I am beginning to worry that I too will see my optometrist next week and he will strengthen my prescription...