Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADDONFIELD, N.J. Camden County Music Fair. A bachelor dentist keeps himself from being trapped by telling his mistress that he is married; then when she wants to meet the wife, he puts his nurse through the drill of filling the part in Cactus Flower, a farce that stars Hugh O'Brian and Sheila MacRae...
...When I say that some of my best friends are "Chicanos" I include my dentist, my accountant, numerous attorney buddies, a fair number of local politicians, a couple of really good auto mechanics, a lady who runs an outstanding Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles, the former sheriff of Los Angeles county, five judges, numerous cops and my mother...
...good" and accepts the little stab without protest. A four-year-old who cannot grasp this concept will probably scream. The adult will almost certainly make some vocal protest if he is taken unawares, and he may do so at the first touch of the dentist's drill if he has been expecting it to hurt. Both surprise and fearful anticipation are elements in reactions to pain...
When Grass criticizes contemporary German society in his novels and plays (a new play concerning a leftist student and a bourgeois dentist just opened in Berlin), he is not always successful, either as writer or as propagandist. The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising is proof of that. But in these speeches, he bluntly and without false pretenses practises the involvement in politics by German citizens that he espouses...
...When the dentist's practice fails, their basic greed--attachment to material goods--begins to tun them against each other, and the film becomes darker and darker as they and their material situation decline. White, recalling their former virtuousness, is now a mockery--certainly in the scene where the dentist murders his wife next to a Christmas tree in the dark. He then flees, but he is pursued by a rival. The film ends with their meeting in Death Valley...