Word: pubic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebuttal, Glass argued that man's use of fire as well as clothing changed his environment enough "to make hairiness an inconsequential feature, except on the more exposed parts of his anatomy." Countered another scientist: What about "man's retention of abundant tufts in the axillae and pubic regions...
...Member of the Funeral. The reader is amazed at her amazement. The rest of the book is a merciless record of the trivia of death-old age and bed wetting, pubic baldness, enemas, Levin tubes, indignity, pain-all made tolerable because it also sets down the stages by which this renowned intellectual prig came to terms with her natural feelings and at the end allowed herself tears at a Catholic funeral, without even sneering at the priest beyond pointing out that he had trousers on under his chasuble. It acknowledges: "I did not understand that one might sincerely weep...
...since they toppled into the jungle. But most of Mexico's ancient art is less monumental and more familiar: everyday household utensils and ritual objects decorated with leaves and tendrils; pots, statuary, and tools in the shape of animals; terra-cotta fertility idols whose swollen thighs and exaggerated pubic regions are pocket guarantees of good crops. Perhaps the highest point of pre-conquest art-and the most exciting part of the Los Angeles show-was the painted room of the temple at Bonampak, a pyramid whose corbel vaults-arches made by stepping stones inward-display 8th century Mayan frescoes...
...base of the skull, with laceration of the fornix cerebri (white fibers connecting the brain's hemispheres); contusion of the frontal and temporal lobes; severe shock; fracture of nine ribs; pneumothorax (air in the pleural space around the lungs); hemothorax (blood in the same space); rupture of the pubic bone junction; fractures of the pubic, hip and haunch bones, and of the head of the left thigh bone; severe contusions of abdominal organs; rupture of the urinary bladder; paralysis of both arms and both legs; gradual failing of circulation, and gradual failing of breathing, apparently from brain damage...
...incident sets a standard that the rest of this bedpan farce from Britain rarely tries to rise above. The picture begins with a pubic shave, continues with a ceremony involving a suppository, settles down to some steady vomiting, wakes up with a scene full of toilet-paper streamers...