Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charles River critters have a distinguished history in the development and testing of vitamins, antibiotics, insulin, contraceptives and cancer drugs. Now the company has another product: the nude, athymic mouse, a hairless, pink-colored model bred without a thymus, the gland that helps the body develop immunity against outside infection. The first of these mice was an unexpected mutation, which was then bred to other mice in the Charles River labs. Now the company turns out more than 250,000 of these beasts annually. They are especially useful in cancer research because they will not reject a tumor transplant like...
Weston went west to grab his share of the American Dream. He has a plot of land all his own--he walks through the house nude to experience the joy of ownership--two old cars, a chunk of desert land sold to him by a con man, and more debt than he can handle. The dream turns into the nightmare, Weston turns into a drunkard, and the refrigerator stands empty...
...crazy over a new portrait of his girlfriend and Jerk co-star Bernadette Peters. The painting, on the cover of Peters' new album Gee Whiz, was done by Illustrator Alberto Varga, 84, who stirred the fantasies of two generations of young men with his soft drawings of semi-nude seductresses for, among others, Esquire and Playboy. Varga retired from painting beauties five years ago, but when Peters, 32, approached him, he just had to give her the brush. Said he: "Yes, you are a Varga Girl." Peters, who wore a camisole for her sittings and bared her shoulders...
...long been impotent, his only mistress being an omnipresent slug of 100-proof oblivion. The couple's unemployed son lives in a '51 Pontiac in the garage. He objects to a mobile home on the grounds that it would be "too permanent." Their daughter is a nude, neurotic recluse, hidden in the recesses of the house, who only communicates, facially, via a television set. Scads of characters wander in and out of this quasi-Feydeau sweet-bitter farce...
...turned into a new sort of flying buttress. Since last fall, chunks of brick have come crashing onto the surrounding concrete patio, which is now fenced off to protect passing students. At California's San José State University, badly fitting window frames caused drafts that sent shivering nude models scurrying from the art studio. The 30 models, aged 21 to 52, went on strike, in part because they were tired of posing clad only in "goose flesh." At San Francisco State University, an electric fan, running some 14 hours a day, is all that keeps the library...