Word: pigmentation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...given, surely belongs to Gregory Gillespie, 44, whose Self-Portrait in Studio, 1976-77, is rendered with maniacal detail−everything in place, every pore on the knobby hands and taut face a deliberate homage to the Flemish quattrocento, and the palette with its squidgy mounds of pigment (paint depicting paint as well as painter) turned into one of the most ar resting displays of realist bravura in recent American...
...only things to suffer. Says Dr. Douglas Puppin, chairman of the dermatology department at the Federal University of Espirito Santo: "Ninety percent of the people I examine from that area have skin cancer or precancerous lesions." The reason: the light-skinned Pomeranians have far less melanin, a protective pigment, than most other, darker-skinned Brazilians. With the trees gone, says Puppin, "children are constantly in the sun. We try to warn them, but you can't expect kids to walk around in hats and long sleeves in the midday heat...
...Twilight Figures" by Jeanette Fintz, uses unusual tones, and emphasizes tension, rather than respectful interplay of human figures. No figure faces any other in this work; the elements in the painting are held together by the boundaries of the canvas and the consistency of pigment...
Nerve cells and skin pigment cells are the only cells in the body known to use L-dopa...
Wick decided to "choke the cell" with an overdose of L-dopa--taking what he called "sort of an educated guess," Wick said he believed L-dopa was likely to act only on the nerve and skin pigment cells, and thought it was probably non-toxic to other cells in the body...