Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black on White. Summerlin made his discovery in 1969, while working at Stanford University and treating burn victims by grafting skin from other parts of their bodies onto the injured areas. He had learned from earlier experience that skin taken from a burn victim and kept in culture for up to three months could be successfully grafted back onto its donor-despite its decomposed appearance. But a chance experiment showed that it could also be grafted onto an unrelated recipient. While grafting skin back onto a black man, Summerlin noticed that he also had a piece of cultured white skin...
...comes it comes as an anticlimax. The "leaf storm," the invasion of the banana company with its false prosperity and erratic electricity and ersatz shelters for its army of migrant workers, passes over the town but disdains to destroy it. The Buendias fail to ignite the town as they burn themselves...
This conflict moves the play, particularly when every joint of Guckenheimer's structure is riveted by the performance of Douglas Hughes. When Hughes's fiery, adolescent Andri is forced into the dilemma of conformity or rebellion, the strain grinds him into a slow, crumpling burn; rubbing palms on trousers as if to ease the searing; stretching fingers behind his back to find air he's not sure he's entitled to. A tight stickfigure of nervousness, he moves like he's in an invisible bag. So his courage lashes out like electricity, for he can never breathe enough to show...
...overrated. The Eiffel Tower? It's rusty. The canals of Venice? They smell like sewers. The Pope? He makes mistakes. The illusions went stale when London Bridge went to Arizona. But if you're incorrigably romantic or naturally obstinate, or even if you just have some money to burn, you may still want to see for yourself. For thousands like you and millions of your dollars, 1974 will be your Year of Europe...
GASOLINE TAX EXPENDITURES. For a pickup truck used by his gardener at San Clemente, Nixon claimed gasoline tax deductions totaling $244 over the four years. To burn that much fuel, the truck would have had to be driven from 9,500 to 15,000 miles a year. Presidential records indicate that it was driven far less. In 1970, for example, Nixon claimed a $73 deduction for gasoline taxes; that same year, according to his records, only $45.47 worth of gasoline (including $10 in tax) was bought for the truck. The report recommends that Nixon refund $147.84 for overdeductions on gasoline...