Word: pinheads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone who wants to abolish the humanist past-that area of art that insists that man is the flower of the universe and can, by force and subtlety of intellect, control it. His images assert the opposite: a nude becomes a lump of hairy pink clay with a pinhead, swagging numbles and a skin so gouged by fissures, cracks and graffiti that it is on the verge of turning into a landscape. The hierarchy of human to animal to vegetable to mineral is abolished; the popeyed homunculi who scurry like moles through his landscapes or rear up, delicately rainbow-tinted...
...Science has long searched for a means of controlling tumors, which can grow from pinhead to marble size in little more than a week. Dr. M. Judah Folkman of Harvard Medical School has found a clue as to how this may be accomplished. The growth of solid cancers appears to require the presence of a recently identified protein substance called tumor angiogenesis factor (T.A.F.). Though Folkman has been working with a variety of solid tumors, he told a neurosurgeons' meeting last week that his chief target has been certain malignancies of the brain, where the need for blood supply...
Folkman told members of the seminar in Clearwater, Fla, that without the TAF, the tumor becomes trapped in its waste products and is not supplied with the nutrients necessary for growth beyond the size of a pinhead...