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...were not easily replaced. But modern visitors to dentists' chairs in search of a gleaming grin find the artificial variety just about as dear as a diamond. Encasing even one chipped or rotted tooth in a cap can run anywhere from $300 to $600, and the process is tedious and uncomfortable. Lately, however, a less expensive alternative has been gaining popularity. Called tooth bonding, it not only costs less but is easier to do, and, enthusiasts claim, looks better when the job is done. Declares Chicago Dentist Marvin Berman: "Bonding is one of the greatest things to come along...
What is does produce, in Thurber's case, is the most tedious sort of ramblings about his travels, his finances, and--in elaborate, unsparing detail--his failing eyesight. The editors identify "the Thurber Circle" as Wolcott Gibbs, Frank Sullivan Kenneth Tynan, and a few other literary buddies, but the letters make it clear that the circle that preoccupied Thurber was his right retina. An entire section of the book is devoted to Thurber's correspondence with his opthalmologist, in which he generally has this kind of thing...
...good taste and smell can increase appetite, terrible taste and odor, or one flavor eaten over and over, should be boring enough to decrease it. Last week, at an international conference on "The Determination of Behavior by Chemical Stimuli," a pair of biologists reported findings suggesting that any tedious diet helps weight loss. If it were possible to eat one food all the time, according to Israeli Nutritional Biochemist Michael Nairn, all but the genetically obese would quickly shed pounds...
...such an innocuous little piece of paper, the computer punch card has loomed large in modern life. When they first started fluttering out of bills and statements in the 1950s, the cards were hailed as harbingers of the computer age, a golden time when machines would take over the tedious work and free people for a fuller life. In the 1960s, though, the cards were transmogrified into the symbol of alienation in a society where machines had run amuck. The somewhat bossy injunction printed on the cards became a slogan of student rebellion: "I am a human being...
...series of topical installments, suitable for use as a read-along guide to the path from "Not Fade Away" to "Start Me Up." Twenty Years doesn't offer too much analysis; its strength is Dalton's willingness to let the Stones and their intimates speak for themselves, sometimes in tedious, drug-muddled rockstarese, but more often in concise, intelligent English...