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...fight the sense of unreality induced by a comfortable childhood, Arbus would ride the subway for hours at at time to observe the freaks of everyday life, the albino messenger boy, a girl with a purple birthmark. She continued to fight what she thought was a sheltered life by planting herself in unpleasant situations. When her husband Allan received training as an army photographer, her inexperienced hand took up the camera. Her first subject was the bare lightbulb hanging from their ceiling. Later, when a dead whale washed onshore in New Jersey, she took a bus there to photograph...
Other characters display unusual gifts. One woman bears a mathematical progression of children on the same date of each succeeding year (first twins, then triplets, etc.). There is a brain-damaged girl who psychically absorbs the shame that others should but do not feel until she becomes a ravening albino panther, be heading animals and humans alike. These surreal people do not simply stand for such concepts as overpopulation or guilt; they also take their places in what the au thor calls "the infinitely rich and cryptic texture of human life...
...royal family. When medical researchers try to unravel the secrets of the cell, essential to understanding cancer, they must be absolutely certain of the genetic "purity" of their test subjects. Thus the biological community was rocked last week by the news that a strain of albino lab mice used by cancer investigators everywhere was genetically contaminated. The tainted mice were discovered by University of Wisconsin Biologist Brenda Kahan and her colleagues while they were growing a primitive type of tumor called a teratocarcinoma. A puzzling enzyme uncharacteristic of the breed kept showing up hi the host animals, a common strain...
...days to obtain any discernible lift of the libido. Vipers, which are especially recommended for people suffering from neuralgia and tuberculosis, cost $140 each. The yellow python, valued as an all-purpose tonic, costs $200, while the most precious serpent of all, the paik-sa, or albino snake, celebrated for assuring longevity, has been known to bring from $4,000 to $6,000. Though that is about four times the average Korean's annual income, snake devotees believe the albino is a bargain: the typical 1½ ft.-long paik-sa, when tastily boiled and simmered, is claimed...
...miracle for the Middle East?a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. But at year's end the negotiations were frustratingly stalled. Poland's Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, the athletic, scholarly Archbishop of Cracow, became the first non-Italian Pope in 4% centuries; in tribute to his gentle predecessor, Albino Cardinal Luciani, who held the keys of St. Peter for little more than a month, he took the name John Paul II. In California a retired industrialist, Howard Jarvis, saw the state's voters approve his tax-slashing Proposition 13?a symbol of widespread middle-class anger at Big Government...