Word: optometrist
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...addition to the Tasty, the property includes the building which housed the Wursthaus, the office of optometrist Dr. Richard Glugeth and numerous other offices upstairs from the Tasty...
...eyes are the windows of the soul, it seems there are more and more strange souls out there. Custom-designed soft contact lenses have made irises the latest accessory. "It's a statement," says California optometrist Richard Silver, who designed Schwarzenegger's cool orbs for Batman & Robin. ("These make the Terminator look like a baby sitter," Arnold boasted.) The painted lenses are costly ($800 and up), must be professionally prescribed and fitted, and are not readily available because of FDA restrictions...
...Just last weekend, I called and wanted an appointment with a doctor, dentist and optometrist," Sadigh said. "The earliest they could offer me, besides spring break, was in April. I ended up getting an earlier appointment by seeing a nurse practitioner...
Harry met the President-elect when his brother Danny, an optometrist in Little Rock who has known Clinton since they were college students, introduced them in the late 1960s. After Harry met Linda -- she had walked up to him at Columbia studios and said, "So you're the other hick on the lot" -- he went over with her to the Governor's mansion one morning for coffee and strawberries. The four didn't stop talking until many hours later. As a granddaughter of a muckraking Arkansas newspaper editor (he was shot by the Ku Klux Klan) and the daughter...
...Spotting a lucrative way to diversify, about half the nation's 24,500 optometrists -- specialists who examine eyes and prescribe corrective lenses -- offer some form of eye-improvement therapy, also called vision training. The premise is simple: while eyesight is largely determined by genetics, seeing is an acquired skill, developed through practice, much like walking or swimming. Says Richard Kavner, a New York City optometrist: "The goal is to improve faulty connections between the brain and eye muscle." Common exercises include walking on a balance beam while reading a chart, completing connect-the-dot pictures and touching points in patterns...