Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year some half a million Americans were snipped, suctioned, stretched and trussed, compared with 300,000 in 1981. Once the province of aging screen stars and wealthy matrons, cosmetic surgery now attracts middle-class office workers, many in their 30s and 40s, and many of them men. Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon Richard Grossman describes the phenomenon as "another transition" for the restless Me generation: "They protested against the wars, and now they're protesting against the mirrors...
According to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, the number of men seeking cosmetic correction has increased 35% in the past two years. They often cite professional image and job marketability as the reasons for smoothing creases or trimming jowls. Explains Dr. Melvyn Dinner, director of the Center for Plastic Surgery in Cleveland: "The 40-year-old who has lost his job is competing with a young hotshot. It's the competitive demand to look youthful...
...procedure can take 30 minutes to three hours, depending on how many problem areas are worked on. Removal of saddlebag thighs runs about $2,000; love handles, $1,500; saggy jowls, $1,300; and baggy knees, $1,200. Observes Dr. Jack D. Norman, a Miami plastic surgeon: "Twenty years ago, it was the nose job. In the 1970s, it was silicone implants. Now the rage is lipectomy...
...even newer trick, called lipofilling, makes use of the fat removed by liposuction to build up other areas, such as filling out cheeks on the face or redefining a jawline. The inspiration for the idea came from patients, says Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon Ian Brown. "They kept coming in and moaning, 'Why can't you just take some from here and put it in there?' " he recalls. "Now we are doing just that." Steven Soll, 38, a Los Angeles financial planner, is looking forward to having fat suctioned from under his double chin and reinserted to strengthen his jawline...
...together out of a house in a small Honduran town, bickering over who was to be in charge. The feuding led to a formal ISA complaint about loose Seaspray security. Seaspray agents had set up a small military satellite dish outside the Honduran house, hiding it with only a plastic garbage bag. An operations security team, Yellow Fruit, flew a large commercial satellite dish to Honduras so that the Queens Hunter team could more convincingly play the part of rich Yanqui tourists...