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Much of the credit for the new acceptance of adult braces must go to the invisible, or lingual, appliance, which offers an alternative to people who cannot face the world with a "tin grin." It was invented by Craven Kurz, 39, a 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...
...ideology. His devotion to the short story provoked some to label him a mere miniaturist. Others were irked by his continued attention to the kind of characters who, as in The Worm in the Apple, "got richer and richer and richer and lived happily, happily, happily, happily." Only the tin-eared could miss the irony of that description. Cheever's people are imprisoned, often comically, by their station wagons and swimming pools and leafy estates. The constant issue in his fiction is not the disposition of wealth but the quotidian skirmish with spiritual poverty...
...starting in the 1930s, who bullied but finally succumbed to the likes of Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart in San Quentin and who later won fame with the video generation as the bumbling, comic Sergeant Biff O'Hara in TV's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin from 1954 to 1960; of liver cancer; in Ashland, Ore., on April...
...Tralla La, Scrooge suffers a nervous breakdown and, with Donald and nephews at his side, goes in search of a place "where there is no money, and wealth means nothing." They find a valley James Hilton might recognize, hidden behind the highest Himalayas. There Scrooge settles happily until a tin cap from a bottle of his nerve medicine is converted into a piece of coveted currency. Scrooge brings corruption to Utopia, just as, in another story, he almost brings industrial pollution to "the smokeless northern wilds." The miser skips out of Duckburg to escape the smog his own heavy industries...
...high of more than $40 per bbl. in 1980, have been declining dramatically. Since petroleum is the basic raw material for scores of products, such as gasoline, fertilizers and many chemicals, a drop in its price is felt throughout the whole economy. The falling prices of raw materials, including tin and copper, and farm products have also been slowing the rate of inflation...