Word: orthodontists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hollywood adults could hope to duplicate the Reagans' portrayal of adolescent infatuation. In any event, polls indicate that it is a sense of family that voters are seeking, not romance. But enduring love, the kind that survives the unpaid orthodontist bill and the lawn grown weedy, cannot be shown on the nightly news. So the candidates will continue to confuse the Dynasty-type desire with devotion, as in this recent swipe by Dukakis: "Democrats tend to sleep in double beds. Republicans prefer twins." The body politic can live without a response to that...
...completely removing the cartilage disk or implanting an artificial hinge. But many experts wince at some recommendations, such as capping every tooth in the patient's mouth in order to reconfigure a bad bite. So do TMJ sufferers. Ruth Shapiro, 40, of Los Angeles, demurred when told by an orthodontist that her only hope was to have reconstructive surgery that would involve breaking her jaw. "He said I wasn't even going to look the same," she recalls in horror. Dentists and patients alike hope such drastic prescriptions will soon disappear. Eventually, they say,temporomandibular-joint disorder should...
...Frank J. Morales, an orthodontist in Matamoros, has a thriving dental practice with roughly 40% of his patients from the U.S. Married to an American, he has houses in both Matamoros and Brownsville, and estimates that half his affluent neighbors in El Jardin (the Garden) section of Matamoros have second homes in either Brownsville or the nearby Texas resort of South Padre Island...
...Hard To Hold tries to convey the difficulties of the road life but only through casual rhetoric. The plot becomes more like a pick up line at each turn--you know, we really have a lot in common, she tells Springfield about her longshoreman father. "My father's an orthodontist," he says. "Hooray for the working class...
Prudent parents, even if they were dedicated ski bums during their own college years, may decide that the cold, crisp joy of schussing to bankruptcy is best left to singles with incomes at or above the orthodontist level. Not at all, say the business-oriented swifties who are taking over the management of big ski resorts from the old 10th Mountain Division veterans who founded them. The ski biz needs families to fill all the lifts and hotels it built during the past two decades and to pay the notes on the expensive snowmaking equipment it continues to install...