Word: hairlessness
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...enough to make dog jokes through the physical characteristics of human characters-a feisty boxer, a bald Mexican hairless, a pedigreed bitch in heat. It is not enough to announce that we-are-all-prisoners-of-the-absurd, as if the idea had sprung full-blown from the head of Downey. What is needed is a vision or a viewpoint. The writer-director can supply neither...
...concerned a white suburb, similar to theirs, hoping that the proximity of the verses to their own lives would open the poems up for them. Some made it half-way inside, but most resided too close to their own growth to scrutinize it. As I sat before a hundred hairless faces in the aqua and ochre and, I thought I should try to undo, in the hour and a half I had, the things that had been done to them in their short lives on Long Island. It would be wonderful if I could only soil them...
...will not tear them, trim them or tuck them." Nonetheless, Partos has rimmed a black Alaskan seal cape with flowers made of 40 different ersatz shades of mink. Revillon Furs' designer Fernando Sanchez likes a long-haired mink, worn with the fur inside, that presents a hairless-though embossed-exterior...
...happen that the ape who eventually developed the superintelligence was the one who in the beginning didn't have the sense to stay in the forests where he had adequate food and protection? If the ape-man became hairless so he could outrun his prey, why didn't the animals who outran the ape-man to escape him become hairless in the same process? Why should the ape-man evolve into a two-legged animal as a result of trying to run faster while the fleetest members of the animal kingdom remained quadrupeds? The answer is found...
...observation that humans who now wear the least clothing have the least hair on their bodies; those who wear the most have the greatest amount of hair. Brace believes that man lost his hair by hunting in the noon heat of tropical days; natural selection favored the relatively hairless hunters, whose bodies were best equipped to dissipate heat. This happened more than half a million years ago, says Brace, or roughly 400,000 years before man developed clothing...