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...dialogue like nightclub one-liners, she might as well be alone. As Hedda's sinister admirer Judge Brack, Timothy West is as sensually menacing as a puff of cigar smoke. If Patrick Stewart's Luvborg has "vine leaves in his hair," they are not Greek but plastic. As Hedda's husband, a timid soul and a baffled marital masochist who dotes on books, Peter Eyre salvages the only acting honors in this debacle...
Since 1969 several hundred American women have undergone plastic surgery similar to Mrs. Dawson's-with increasingly satisfactory results. At a recent meeting at Rutgers Medical School, plastic surgeons predicted that the number of breast reconstructions would continue to rise. Self-examination and mass screening programs are detecting an increasing number of early breast cancers* before they spread; that makes it possible to perform less disfiguring operations than the standard radical mastectomy, in which not only the breast but the lymph nodes under the armpit and the muscles of the chest are removed. As a result, doctors predict that...
Surgical Revolution. Doctors have been experimenting since the 1950s with techniques to rebuild amputated breasts with grafts of fatty tissues and implants. Their initial efforts were often unsuccessful. The earlier implants, which consisted of chemically inert plastics, were of a firmer consistency than normal breast tissue and were aesthetic failures; the reconstructed breast was often no more than a hard mound that was usually noticeably smaller than the remaining breast. The plastic, in fact, often shrank and became lumpy after implantation...
Poor Godfrey struggles through years of rejection before a rich young man accepts him, much as a lepidopterist might collect a grotesque rare moth. When the young man dies, he leaves Godfrey enough money to go to Britain's best plastic surgeon. What emerges is a face of such beauty that it suggests a saintly soul. Far from it. With beauty comes vindictiveness. Godfrey is bent on revenge for being spurned so long. He becomes a famous preacher who cries out to vast audiences: "Christ died for man to atone for sin. Can we do less...
...loads in Shampoo's Los Angeles lead to George's beauty salon, where George sets the hair of beautiful women and then takes them home to bed. Moving between salon and bedroom, comb and penis, shampoo and sperm, George is the denizen of a bizarre world whose plastic kaleidoscopic glitter Beatty exploits in his farcical look into the sex scene of the L.A. beautiful people...