Word: complexion
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...Father Jerzy was not cowed, and he gladly explained how his aid center distributed medical supplies. It was clear from his shabby cassock and waxen complexion that he, unlike some of his colleagues at other Polish churches, rarely availed himself of the fruits of Western aid. In a room upstairs was a large map of Poland showing the location of every political detention center in the country. This quiet, unassuming priest had become a message center for the Solidarity underground, keeping activists in touch with one another. He was a valued source, for he knew better than most what...
...acne victim himself. Stone says he visited several dermatologists before clearing his complexion on his own. He claims his "treatment has a clinically proven 95 percent success rate," and to have "cured" himself, his brother, and his freshman roommate...
...eyes of other family members. One wife complained that her husband was rushing through meals to get to his computer. A husband lamented that his spouse was spending more time programming her computer than tending to his needs. And one mother said her teen-ager's complexion turned "the color of cream cheese" as a result of too many marathon sessions in front of the newest tube...
Merely showing up for the event at Miami's Fontainebleau hotel was enough to cause a pimple. But Philip Michael Thomas, 36, and Don Johnson, 36, stars of the new TV show Miami Vice, risked complexion and cavities to do their part at a two-day chocoholics' festival. The pair took turns on a spring-loaded seat over a 400-gal. vat of chocolate syrup, while a bevy of young girls lobbed baseballs at the target for $3 a pop. After three splashdowns each in the high-calorie goo, the men were just too delicious for the girls...
...violence that continued to rack the black townships outside Johannesburg last week took no account of the significance of a forthcoming event that could eventually change the complexion of South Africa's policy of racial discrimination. This week in the city of Cape Town, where white settlers first landed 332 years ago, the whites' absolute monopoly on the country's political power will come to a theoretical end. Representatives of South Africa's 2.8 million "coloreds," or people of mixed race, and its 850,000 Indians will formally take their seats in a new tricameral Parliament...