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...searches for her name against all other dancers who have participated on the show through the years, she received 24.9% of all searches during the last four weeks. But, as with online interest in other contestants, searchers were most fascinated with her looks. Top Priscilla searches included "Priscilla Presley plastic surgery," "Priscilla Presley facelift" and "Priscilla Presley's face...
Meanwhile, the rest of us wrestled with our choices: do we swear off meat, swap canvas for plastic, ditch the lawn, change the bulbs, wonder if it's too late? "I hope this movement is not a fad," one activist told a TIME reporter after the first Earth Day 38 years ago, "but the signs are not encouraging." On the one hand, less than three months later, President Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency. The air and water got cleaner, DDT was banned, leaded gas phased out, recycling phased in. On the other hand, the world's population has nearly...
...Such a depiction conveys the dangerous notion that plastic surgery is just as simple and routine as applying lipstick. This speaks to a culture that now uses Botox more than braces, in spite of new research from the Italian Institute of Neuroscience shows that the botulinum toxin used in facial injections can migrate into the brainstem and cause death...
...fact that many mothers are incapable of simply telling their children about their procedures is also indicative of a poisonous societal context. Today, plastic surgery is an established television genre: “Dr. 90210,” “Nip/Tuck,” and “The Swan” are memorable examples. Even while these popular programs champion the vocation of cosmetic surgeons, their actual patients are meant to sheepishly deny having work done...
...prominence in American culture, I hope at least that future efforts at depicting the industry, on the page and on the screen, will not ignore the risks associated with its procedures, and will take care not to promote entrenched stereotypes and harmful practices. Targeting a book in praise of plastic surgery to children is inherently perverse—so much so that I yearn for the nauseating tales of my own childhood that insisted: “Everyone is special in their...