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...Holmes effort antedate the regulation, they can continue AFP testing without waiting for FDA approval. These research centers include the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center in Waltham, where Dr. Aubrey Millunsky, assistant professor of Pediatrics, has been directing AFP testing since 1973, and the Foundation for Blood Research in Scar-borough, Maine...

Author: By Jeffrey B. Chasnow, | Title: Doctors Screen Birth Defects | 3/11/1981 | See Source »

...makes running a hand through her hair a profound expression of violently contradictory emotions; her quick, reluctant smile exudes poignancy. Physically, she is the perfect realization of Polanski's idea of "provocative beauty." Her full lips suggest a smoldering sensuality, undetectable in those Bambi-esque eyes. Even the tiny scar on her left cheek seems to heighten her beauty, like Gene Tierney's over-bite. The trouble with Kinski is her voice, a wonderfully funny, squeaky little thing. It quivers and gurgles and struggles to capture an English accent but sounds oddly Irish instead. She rushes to finish many...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Polanski Prettified | 2/27/1981 | See Source »

...heart attack, he and his physicians chose full medical disclosure, issuing daily bulletins that went so far as to describe presidential bowel movements. Lyndon Johnson was generous with details of his 1965 gall bladder operation-and, as a now-famous photograph attests, he even showed off his scar for the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fit for the Presidency? | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...something to himself. He could take the political opprobrium that was heaped upon him and still keep his dignity. He confided to a friend not long ago that being jeered with Mayor Jane Byrne in Chicago, a city that used to revere his brother John, had left an ugly scar. Finding, when he began to falter, that professed "old friends" in the Senate and the nation's statehouses would not even return his phone calls shocked him into the realization of just how lonely it was to be a loser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: That Which We Are, We Are | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...variety of intimate matters now bandied about is without apparent limits. On talk shows like Phil Donahue's, ordinary people regularly recount stories of emotional disturbance, marital discord, incest. Men chat about their vasectomies, women about their hysterectomies. The spectacle of Lyndon B. Johnson flashing his surgical scar to the world, so vulgar at the time, seems comparatively genteel in retrospect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Bull Market in Personal Secrets | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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