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...romantic style of the great masters. It may not have always been wise to imitate the ideal, of course. Rudolph Valentino, for example, favored a hyperbolic style, arching the woman back into a circumflex and doing semaphor with his eyebrows. He had the technique of a gifted and tormented periodontist. Nor is it always advisable for amateurs to try to reproduce the unforgettable scenes, like the one in which Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr tumble in the Hawaiian surf in From Here to Eternity. Those who attempt that on Cape Cod arise with abrasions on their shoulders and plankton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Changing the Signals of Passion | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...groups.google.com Type "rec.travel" in the search box to pull up 15 different newsgroups. The nonmoderated forums are peppered with commercial listings but full of useful advice too. Postings in the Asia group last week ranged from requests for a periodontist in Bangkok to updates on which regions have been most affected by SARS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Timely Travel Tips | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

...Fasciano, a periodontist, was a Somerville native. He graduated with a degree in chemistry from Tufts in 1956 and later earned his doctorate at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dental Services Head Fasciano Dead at 60 | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

...refusals do you know that Judith Singer (Susan Sarandon) is not only a likable woman but a good one. She is very nearly the only lady in her Long Island suburb who has resisted the oleaginous charms of Dr. Bruce Fleckstein, a periodontist whose hands tend to roam from his drill and who has a taste for taking pictures of his female patients that reveal more than the condition of their root canals. Judith even has the sweetly articulated moral fiber to resist the more attractive proposals of the nice police detective (Raul Julia) who is investigating Dr. Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crimebuster Compromising Positions | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...attitude is one of aggressive athleticism. Long hours at the office is only one way to be belligerently preggers. Even new fashions help the mother-to-be (see box). Women run, scuba dive and fence, sometimes against the advice of their doctors, while carrying a child. One New York periodontist in her late 30s refused to stop riding with her local hunt club when she became pregnant. She merely traded in her form-fitting "hunting pink" jacket for a man's jacket to cover her swelling stomach, and continued to follow the hounds and, no doubt, perplex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Baby Bloom | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

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