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GUMMIDGE: Not at all. You can now use it even when addressing preschoolers. In his book Translations from the English, Robert Paul Smith offers these samples: "He shows a real ability in plastic conception." That means he can make a snake out of clay. "He's rather slow in group integration and reacts negatively to aggressive stimulus." He cries easily. And "He does seem to have developed late in large-muscle control." He falls on his head frequently...
...visited one of Japan's foremost plastic-surgery clinics? "We cannot reveal what sort of treatment Madame came for," volunteered a doctor on the Jujin staff. "That would be unethical." Madame Ky was only slightly more helpful: "I want to be more charming to my husband...
Whatever the specifics, Madame Ky was only one of the tens of thousands of Asian women who flock every year to plastic surgeons to make themselves "more charming" to their husbands and boy friends-or even to get ahead in the business world. "These days," says Dr. Jiro Minagawa, who heads Tokyo's plush Minagawa Cosmetic Clinic, "girls come in and go out much as they go to the beauty salon to have their hair done." Dr. Pham Ba Vien, dean of Saigon's practitioners of chirurgie esthétique, agrees. "Show a woman something different...
...rage for new angles, however, has not lessened at all. Throughout free Asia, the demand for plastic surgery now exceeds the supply of plastic surgeons. A Bangkok specialist, who performed more than 1,000 operations in 1965, reports that his business is growing at the rate of 10% a year. In Hong Kong, where the practice is strictly regulated by the British government, there is a booming black market of unlicensed operators, most of whom got their start as beauticians...
...Fumio Umezawa was once asked to remodel an unknown Hong Kong actress to look like a star who had died in the middle of a movie; his work was so perfect that superstitious studio hands swore they were seeing a ghost. After nearly three decades of plastic surgery, in fact, Dr. Umezawa admits to only one failure. It involved a Japanese movie actress who had come to him for the insertion of bags of silicone jelly to build up her breasts. Shortly after the operation, she had to go before the cameras to play a violent love scene...