Word: pallor
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...highly polished as his shoes. Now he and Mo stay home. Although hidden from public view by drawn shades, he still looks tanned. The tan is inexplicable; he told a recent visitor: "I haven't been in the sun for days. I would call it a bourbon pallor; except I haven't had a drink for days either." For the most part, in these last weeks leading up to his climactic appearance before the Ervin committee, he has worked in his basement, putting his letters and other documents in order, preparing for his ordeal...
...about American apathy and brutality. "I don't make movies to say anything," he insists. "I make them because I enjoy making that kind of picture, showing a specific emotion on the screen." Bogdanovich not only enjoys making movies, he virtually lives them. His face has the occupational pallor of long days spent on sound stages; a typical conversational aside begins "Wasn't it Orson who said . . . ?" and a favorite Bogdanovich recreation at parties is doing imitations of Jimmy Stewart and Gary Grant. He disagrees with friends who think that What's Up Doc?, a frenetic...
Chlorosis, the virginal love sickness that produced a greenish pallor in young girls suffering the pangs of unrequited love, passed out of medical terminology when it was discovered to be nothing more than iron-deficiency anemia. Febricula, a "little fever" that lingered in some medical texts until 1947, was once thought to be caused by stale beer, foul odors and sewer gases. It has since been identified as a symptom of a variety of other-and more easily identified-viral infections of the respiratory tract...
...Hill 875, near Dak To. Out of 300 U.S. soldiers who went up the hill, he recalls, 97 were killed and 120 were wounded. "We were stuck there for 30 hours, no water, no nothing-just enemy fire. The living and the dead had the same gray pallor. When I finally got on the helicopter to get out of there, I just bawled, I was so glad to be alive." The same year Faas wrote a moving story while he was in a hospital recovering from a severe rocket wound. Without his camera, Faas simply recorded in words the scene...
...ailment was diagnosed as acute leukemia, or "cancer of the blood," a fatal disease of the blood-forming organs. At about the same time, a 22-year-old Australian suffering from an obsessive-compulsive neurosis was treated with LSD injections for two months. A year later, suffering from fatigue, pallor, bleeding gums, rashes and an "influenza-like illness," he too was found to be a victim of acute leukemia...