Word: scarring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...privacy, of course, but few really practice it. More and more people operate in the spirit of the jet-set character who gives each new wife a press agent for a wedding present. But then, how can privacy be prized when the President of the U.S. bares his surgical scar on television for all the world...
...ordered them to the rear was about 5'10," stocky, about 180 lbs. He had a swarthy complexion with a dark scar on his face. His hair was long, black, greasy, and combed straight back. He wore a tan, zipper poplin jacket...
...lucky enough to get a room above the seventh floor. But you can't look out the window all day, and when you're not looking out the window you look at the three remaining walls in your cinder-block cubicle. More than one year in the Towers could scar a man for life and make a raving idiot of a claustrophobe...
...problems of satire is that, to many humorists, the world itself is a large balloon full of wind, a satire on itself. "The world is getting so crazy you just have to laugh," says Art Buchwald, who lists some recent examples of self-satire: Lyndon Johnson showing his scar, Premier Ky and his wife in their Captain and Mrs. Midnight flight suits, the Ecumenical Council debating whether the Jews really killed Christ. There is surprisingly little political satire of Lyndon Johnson. The reason, believes Playwright-Director George Abbott, is that "humor is exaggeration, and President Johnson is his own exaggeration...
...repairing ignition armatures. With no tendon attachments, he could not bend his ankle, and although he got along for two more years with a gimpy gait, Dr. Byers was not satisfied. Last December he got Larsen back into the hospital, where orthopedists freed three major tendons from masses of scar tissue both above and below the old break, and joined them with steel sutures...