Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pete is old. "But age is meaningless with me," he says. By some trick of time, he has skipped his true generation. His lined, leathery face is as supple as if treated daily with neat's-foot oil. As he goes into his crouch, grinning hideously, his gapped teeth look as if they were hammered into his head by a drunken cobbler. And his remarkable body, you might say, is more rounded all over than he is. "If you slid into bases head first for 20 years," he says to all of that, "you'd be ugly...
...Nottingham, 33, a beer wholesaler in Hartford City, Ind., had crooked teeth as a child and recalls, "I just wasn't ready emotionally for braces." Years later, looking at a family photograph, he noticed that even as an adult he was holding his mouth "very strangely" in order to cover his malaligned teeth. Last October a dentist spent 1 hr. 45 min. fitting Nottingham with braces. Two weeks later his teeth were wired. "Within 60 days, there was a tremendous amount of difference," says Nottingham, whose 18-to 24-month treatment will cost $3,000. "I'm seeing...
...wired in an ad the A.A.O. has been running in magazines to foster a positive image of grownup braces.) Says Spiro Chaconas, chairman of the department of orthodontics at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dental School: "If Eleanor Roosevelt were alive today and had braces put on her teeth at, say, age 60, she could have near perfect dentition within a couple of years...
...Beverly Hills, Calif, orthodontist who once was a faculty member of UCLA Dental School. Some of Kurz's patients, among them actors, announcers and even Playboy Bunnies, had a professional investment in their smiles. "They were in a Catch-22 situation," explains Kurz. "They needed to have their teeth straightened, but they couldn't use conventional braces-it would be disastrous for their jobs...
...that in mind and I hope to God I don't do it." The author of two fiction books shows a keen concern for his image in the baseball world. "I used to be called a poet of baseball which I strongly resented," Angell says. He further grits his teeth at the word "essay" so often used to describe his works. "There's an implication here that this isn't really reporting. I consider myself a reporter and I work very hard. I do a lot of digging and talking to people," he says...