Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...treatment developed by a New York dentist may prove to be the best option. At Elmhurst City Hospital, in Queens, N.Y., Dr. Jerome Markowitz has been custom fitting cleft-palate babies with what he describes as an "overextended denture without teeth." The plate allows infants to be given an ordinary bottle or even to be breast-fed in a normal position. Markowitz tries to get the device into place within 24 hours after birth so that the baby will not consider the object foreign. It takes him about an hour to make an impression of the baby's mouth...
...character who adds a distinctly Germanic touch to the story is the engineer Johann, whose red-rimmed eyes, hollow-cheeked beared and skewed teeth suggest a gnome straight out of Grimm's ghastly tales. Nicknamed "The Phantom," he crouches like a magicker among his intricate pumping machinery and shivers with foreboding before each explosion of an underwater bomb. But he is not the only hint of a tradition of fantasy. At one point we awake with the correspondent not knowing whether the terrifying crises of the past hours were real or only a dream. We share an unsettling feeling about...
...eyes-a makeup woman minutely improving Mabel's face-she reads subtle paragraphs about Americans abroad. But it is now harder for her to find the intensity that the stage show always seemed to generate, and Director Leach has noticed that lately she seems to grit her teeth when thinking of England. Love scenes with Rex Smith are still to be shot, and she must be shyly radiant. Leach has told her to take some time off, fly back to her home in Los Angeles and soak up those shy, radiant freeway vitamins...
...people sitting round a table drinking beer, and trying to fling quarters into the mugs. When someone gets a quarter into a beer, he can either drink it or choose someone else who has to. The person elected must chug the beer and catch the quarter in his teeth...
...EVEN SO, he thankfully gives us a little substance to sink our teeth into. Luciano claims he's a basically shy man who loses his inhibitions when he gets on the field. It's an unusual idea, to lose your self-consciousness only in front of thousands of people, but hidden somewhere among the confessed botched calls, and hints at being overwhelmed, that impression of insecurity seeps through...