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...Wart Removal. A Rio face-lift costs $500 to $1,600, about 20% less for the doctor and 50% less for the hospital than it does in the U.S. Traveling expenses raise total costs for Americans to about what they would pay at home, but the pleasures of a trip to Rio (and the advantage of secrecy) give Brazil a definite edge. "One woman came here from Beverly Hills to have a wart removed," says Pitanguy, "simply because she likes to travel...
...from the Innards. As the play begins, a ten-foot-tall puppet with a bilious, wart-covered face lumbers to the center of the stage and mumbles unintelligible words from an ugly rubber mouth while wielding a black plastic truncheon. "Kill the dirty Fascist!" shouts a group of men in turtleneck sweaters as they start to beat the puppet's swollen belly. Out from the puppet's innards steps a shapely brunette in a bathing costume who announces that she is "Capitalism." Soon a 30-foot-long white-and-green-colored dragon winds its way through the gasping...
...occupy the seats of power, foot the bills, and make the decisions that profoundly affect how the other four-fifths live. The halls of Congress ring with the medicares of the aged. Every anatomical twitch or psychedelic escapade of the teen-agers scares up worry wart headlines. Ironically, even the revolt of the teen-aged is subsidized by middle-agers. Those tiny secessionist principalities of the disdainful young that span the U.S. from the La Jolla, Calif., surfing set to the hobohemians of Greenwich Village could scarcely be sustained without the checkbooks of indulgent fathers...
...hope of this appointment." Eagel said, "is to give the recipient a maximum of free time." Briggs-Capeland lecturers will not be required to write during their two-year stay, but "these people are writers and presumably that is what they will wart to do," Engel said. "What they need from us is not encouragement but non-interference...
...toilsome chore of untaming their pampered playmate gives the movie tension, much of it spelled out in pictures more than equal to the rich lion lore contained in the book. In one sequence, an embarrassed Elsa is bullied by a small wart hog, and still cannot understand that she will soon have to kill in order to survive. Later, she lies yawning atop the Land Rover, unmoved by a young bachelor lion laying under a tree. Before Elsa mates successfully, reports the surrogate Mrs. Adamson, "we suffered all the agony of parents whose teen-age daughter...