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...manufacture; the cost of insertion is no more than a doctor chooses to charge, which may be nothing at a health station in India or the fee for an office visit and examination in the U.S. A woman who wants another child can usually become pregnant within a cou ple of months after the IUCD'S removal. Most important, IUCDS can be left in place for months or years without thought or attention...
Crown & Root. A tooth is not a sim ple cutting or grinding tool, but a complex piece of living matter. The part that shows, which dentists call the crown, is made of bonelike dentine wrapped in an enamel shell. The part that is hidden, which dentists call the root, consists of bonelike materials surrounding the root canal, which is filled with soft tissue, blood vessels and the tooth's nerve...
...says, contrasting versions of the same image-one controlled and disciplined, the other bursting. They neither draw the eye into spaces beyond or leap out to envelop it, for Gottlieb means them to be so flat that they will not violate the surface of the canvas and so sim ple that they can be absorbed at a glance. To Friedman, they suggest "the resolution of serene and aggressive elements" and hence "the paradox of civilized man." To others they are simply there, in all their stubborn purity-statements without any definite meaning and with little magic, but with a painterly...
...talking movies. One Aleksei Ro manov, Russia's commissar of the cutting room, announced last week that even though Federico Fellini's 8½ had won first prize at the Moscow Interna tional Film Festival, it was far too pessimistic to be shown to the Russian peo ple. The criticism was unfair. The Fellini picture is all about a befuddled movie director who wants to dramatize the nuclear destruction of mankind but in stead surrenders himself to just loving everybody. "Let us all join hands," he cries as the whole cast dances a ring-around-the-rocket...
...this change does not necessarily make the House unattractive. Like Harvard itself, Dunster has become more restrained, less gung-ho, and more serious than a few years ago. Although you won't find many peo- ple wearing "I'm gung-ho Dunster" tags anymore, there aren't many recluses in the House either. Dunster is still perhaps, the friendliest House in the College, and its warmth and openness are not at all obnoxious...