Word: lice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tested; the forlorn, rumpled figure of a woman in the snow who committed suicide by touching the high-tension barbed wire around Auschwitz; SS guards abusing prisoners. But he also has dozens of other details-women carrying soup in heavy barrels, prisoners being mustered for work, men searching for lice, sick call, scenes in a mess hall-until the whole experience seems so matter of factly part of life that it cannot be protectively blocked out of the mind as some sort of nether worldly nightmare...
Akihito, 37, has inherited his father's biological interests and specializes in fish morphology. Second Son Hitachi, 35, is also a scientist. One of his specialties is Japanese bird lice. Hirohito's youngest daughter, the chic former Princess Suga, 32, was once a disk jockey in Tokyo, is now consultant in a boutique in Tokyo's Prince Hotel...
...annually per student (v. $839 in the U.S.). The Left Bank lycéée of Buffon, built for 900 students in 1887, now has some 3,000. A lycée in Normandy was recently closed for a week while exterminators tried to root out a plague of lice. Laboratories often contain only meager quantities of the chemicals needed for experiments...
Vile rumors were spread about the four dead students. The bodies were all said to be filthy, some infected with lice. One girl was said to be pregnant, syphilitic and on hard drugs. The gossip was so widespread that the county coroner, who had examined the four, felt it necessary to deny each allegation. "These were four clean kids," he reported. Why, then, such talk? "Precisely because they were largely guiltless of any crime against society," Michener says, "they must be denigrated and torn down, because otherwise that society would have to declare itself guilty of murder...
...those who ride them have been made into apocalyptic images of aggression and revolt -Greasy Rider on an iron horse with 74-cu.-in. lungs and ape-hanger bars, booming down the freeway to rape John Doe's daughter behind the white clapboard bank: swastikas, burnt rubber, crab lice and filthy denim. It has long been obvious that the bike was heir to the cowboy's horse in movies; but if Trigger had been loaded with the sado-erotic symbolism that now, after dozens of exploitation flicks about Hell's Angels, clings to any Harley chopper...