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...writing in response to Joe A. Acevedo's brainless condemnation of Sinead O'Connor ("Hairless Heathen Heckles High Priest," Oct. 20). I am not sure which I found more disturbing, his blind defense of the Catholic Church, or his vicious attacks on Sinead for expressing her beliefs. Both were riddled with factual half-truths and logical inconsistancies...
Though the mummified body was completely hairless, investigators have plucked about 1,000 curly brownish-black hairs from the recovered shreds of clothing. Those that came from the Iceman's head were only 9 cm (3 1/2 in.) long -- evidence that humans had been cutting their hair far earlier than anthropologists had believed. More mysterious were the well-defined tattoos: groups of blue parallel lines on the Iceman's lower spine, a cross behind the left knee and stripes on the right ankle. "Since all these tattoos were covered by clothing," says Spindler, "they must have had an inner meaning...
...scientists at the University of Genoa, Italy, noted that the rays coming from unshielded quartz-halogen lamps can induce mutations in the DNA of bacteria. Since genetic mutations are one cause of cancer, they decided to move up a few rungs on the evolutionary ladder. They subjected specially bred hairless mice to the lights 12 hours a day for a year and found that every one developed skin tumors -- most benign, but some cancerous. The research, reported in the British journal Nature, involved only a handful of mice, so it was labeled a pilot study. But the results were...
Episode Two: (November 1988, Winthrop's Standish courtyard, about 1 a.m.) While heading home after a long night of studying in Winthrop's house library, I am greeted on the sidewalk by what I initially think is a squirrel. A quick second look at a long, hairless tail convinces me that this rodent, now running for the bushes, is no innocuous squirrel, but a well...
...death that are palpable in his scenes of heavy leather are still visible in the phallic tumescence and mortal shadows of Calla Lily, 1984. The straightforward but unreal quality of the S-M images is there again in his portrait of Ken Moody and Robert Sherman, 1984 -- two hairless heads, one black, one white, an uncanny feeling built from blunt facts. After a while, even the taut compositions of Mapplethorpe's portraits start to look like another form of bondage...