Word: clefts
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BABIES AT RISK Could cleft palate and spina bifida be the result of stress during pregnancy? That's the implication of a study of more than 20,000 Danish women. The researchers found that pregnant women struggling with emotionally wrenching life changes--a death in the immediate family, say, or a partner suffering a heart attack--had a higher incidence of congenital problems than women with relatively stress-free pregnancies. Two stressful pregnancies in a row doubled the chances of having a child with congenital problems...
...work with Murphy. He has other makeup skills beyond the dreams of Max Factor: old age (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman), space aliens (the first Star Wars and Men in Black), lycanthropes (Wolf and An American Werewolf in London) and dead movie stars. Using a chin cleft and extended ears, he helped Martin Landau turn into Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's Ed Wood. Both won Oscars. "Without Rick's makeup, I couldn't have done it," says Landau...