{"id":1445,"date":"2003-09-16T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2003-09-16T17:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/16\/try-this-with-a-straight-face\/"},"modified":"2003-09-16T13:40:55","modified_gmt":"2003-09-16T17:40:55","slug":"try-this-with-a-straight-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/16\/try-this-with-a-straight-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Try This With a Straight Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1129'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/funnyface.jpg\" width=\"179\" height=\"242\"> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"376\">\n<p>You know how Science keeps us on our toes by constantly<br \/>\n        updating what is good for us and what is not? Like wine, butter, chocolate,<br \/>\n        fish, sugar, aspertane, aspirin, etc. etc. etc.? Well, my Aunt Dorothy<br \/>\n        must have told me a thousand times that if I kept making those faces<br \/>\n        my muscles would freeze and I would be stuck forever.<\/p>\n<p>Now, accordiing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/yourlife\/health\/fitness\/articles\/2003\/09\/16\/can_facial_weight_lifting_turn_back_the_clock\/\">todays<br \/>\n          Boston Globe<\/a>, &quot;A thicket of books, videotapes,<br \/>\n        and pulsing wands promises to rejuvenate the face by erasing wrinkles,<br \/>\n        lifting skin, and plucking crow&#8217;s feet &#8212; all without face lifts, collagen,<br \/>\n      or injections of Botox.&quot;&nbsp; How? Facial exercises!&nbsp; Here is<br \/>\n      an example of one, from the book Facercise by Carole Maggio.<\/p>\n<p>These are impossible to do with a straight face.&nbsp; Believe me, I<br \/>\n        have tried&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<p><strong>The Eye Enhancer <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>      Either lying down or sitting, with your palms toward your face, place your<br \/>\n        middle fingers between your eyebrows, above the bridge of your nose.<br \/>\n        Place your index fingers with light pressure at the outer corner of each<br \/>\n        eye, so each hand creates a V, while keeping your brows and skin from<br \/>\n        wrinkling. Look toward the top of your head. Squint up with the lower<br \/>\n        eyelid, feeling the outer eye muscle pulse. Squint up and release 10<br \/>\n        times. Hold the squint and squeeze your eyes tightly shut, keep your<br \/>\n    buttocks tight, and count to 40. Repeat twice daily. <\/p>\n<p><i>Don&#8217;t forget to keep those buttocks tight, or you might wind up in big trouble!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/yourlife\/health\/fitness\/articles\/2003\/09\/16\/can_facial_weight_lifting_turn_back_the_clock\/\">from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how Science keeps us on our toes by constantly updating what is good for us and what is not? Like wine, butter, chocolate, fish, sugar, aspertane, aspirin, etc. etc. etc.? Well, my Aunt Dorothy must have told me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/16\/try-this-with-a-straight-face\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}