Word: leprous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Updike observes grimly. In another tale of marital wrangling, then, the wife gets through to her husband only by inducing desperation like a "hooked claw," evolving "psychic protuberances that penetrated and embraced his mind." Just in case you didn't get it, in "The Journal of the Leper," the leprous creature is no longer loved by his woman once he is cured. So instead his characters learn to withdraw; they stick wax ear plugs in their ears like the unidentified man in "Commercial" and block out all but the "subterranean whistling noise" of their own breathing...
Little Monsters. For the child who does not get enough blood and ghoul from TV or movies, new Monster Make-Up and Horror Make-Up kits provide the wherewithal for 56 basic variations of Lon Chaney, including leprous or misshapen cheekbones, deformed foreheads, grotesque scars, dagger wounds, drooping, bulging eyeballs, bullet holes-plus a bottle of nontoxic gore. The kits, which sell for less than $20 each, were designed by Veteran Makeup Artist Dick Smith, who turned Linda Blair's head in The Exorcist and aged Marlon Brando in The Godfather. They come with a packet of powdered gelatin...
Calcutta presents a harrowing vision. The destitute, the skin-and-bones starving, the leprous and the dying seem to be concentrated there as nowhere else in India-or the world. Their numbers, swollen by past waves of refugees from Bangladesh, grow daily. At least 200,000 of them live in the streets, building tiny fires to cook their scraps of food, defecating at curbstones, curling up in their cotton rags against a wall to sleep-and often to die. Out of this scene of unremitting human desolation has come an extraordinary message of love and hope. Its bearer...
...room to maneuver or park private cars, New Yorkers are more desperately dependent on taxis than any other city dwellers in the world. And the thousands of cabs that they ride are among the world's sleaziest: cigarette butts and paper coffee cups on the floor, dirty windows, leprous upholstery, chewed gum and sticky candy wrappers on ripped seats, and jagged metal protrusions on the doors waiting to savage the clothing of entering or departing passengers...
...free-form, unconstrained lecture style which had been considered masterful was suddenly dubbed "showboating." In the spring of 1967, The New York Times quoted his students as believing, "Erich Segal does for Latin what Christ did for Lazarus." But by 1971, Segal himself seemed to look a bit leprous. "The very things I was doing before I went electronic were the very things that hung me, (like) the fact that I used to come into class at Yale with one note card. They would think 'one card--the bastard hasn't prepared!' In truth I had memorized almost everything...