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...result simply from the loss of elasticity that goes naturally with aging (or, less naturally, with smoking and sun exposure), causing the skin to sag and crumple. There are treatments for this sort of wrinkle, but Botox isn't one of them, says Dr. David L. Feldman, director of plastic surgery at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. "I had a patient recently who came in asking for Botox," he says. "It would have done no good at all. In fact, she might have ended up looking worse...
...vodka bottling company. Cappy has never actually been there before, but thought it was important to see while in Somerville, given how many Harvard students use its products every weekend (Walker is responsible for Gilbert’s, Cossack, S.S. Pierce, and a host of other cheap, cheap plastic handle favorites on campus). Upon arriving at Walker it appears that the gate is locked, but Cappy insists that we squeeze through the fence anyway to get a closer look (at the parking lot). “This is where the magic happens,” he says...
...smartly dressed middle-aged man, looking a bit like a banker, charges past rows of salad dressing and diapers in the suburban Virginia Safeway, a plastic grocery basket swinging at his side. He scans the produce section until he finds what he has come for: turnips. He examines them one by one. "Too big means the root is too tough inside, too small you've got nothing left once it's peeled," the man explains as he fills up a plastic bag and twists it closed...
...shared the Shah's famously imperious manner and tastes. (At a 1971 celebration of 2,500 years of the Persian Empire, an entire ton of Iranian caviar was consumed.) So far, the Crown Prince has avoided being tainted with the family reputation. He drives a Jeep, wears a black plastic watch and says he plans to give up caviar. He can come across as a sort of Al Gore--earnest, consciously cerebral, techie. If the prospect of an Iranian Gore sounds grim, consider the alternatives--either before 1979 or after...
When David Bowie went through his R.-and-B. phase, they called it plastic soul. Now Neil Young is playing with the guys from Booker T. and the MGs, singing melodies ripped from the Otis Redding playbook, adding his own ragged guitar solos and flower-child lyrics: call it all-natural gra-soul-a. It's nearly always a little too sweet, with Young's voice reaching high to deliver heartfelt avowals of love tinged with sadness at the state of the world. A tightly professional backup of organ, mid-tempo drums and precise rhythm guitar keeps him from getting...