Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sauntering across Korea, preceded and pursued by wolf cries from U.S. troops, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe appeared on open-air stages in a skin-tight purple cocktail dress. She talked some and sang a bit before a microphone, but mostly she just showed off her unspoken lines. Results: stampedes of G.I.s tried to overrun cordons of military police; one amateur soldier-talent show haplessly billed ahead of Marilyn's appearance was stoned. Once, Marilyn had to take off by jeep from some 6,000 ill-disciplined troops who rushed the stage. She also discomfited MSAdministrator Harold Stassen, who made...
...they have reason: their bank-robbing father is in Moundsville Prison waiting to be hanged. Before The Night of the Hunter has gone many pages, Ben Harper lives out the doggerel and swings for his crimes. The secret and, eventually, the terror around which Author Grubb's skin-prickling first novel unfolds is: What did Ben Harper do with the $10,000 in crisp, green 100s that he killed two bank clerks...
...going in for shameless interruptions at climactic moments, The Confidential Clerk is the glaringly legitimate offspring of Gilbert & Sullivan and Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest. Its tone, moreover, is often as artificial as its plot is absurd. But plainly, Eliot's bantering is only skin-deep; plainly his "Who am I?" is no mere parlor game, but a cry from the heart; and his reshufflings of parentage involve revelations about life. Beneath the surface lurk some very large questions about this world and the next, about people's true identities, true vocations, true...
Just before sunrise, a great procession, led by naked, ash-smeared holy men and gold-caparisoned elephants, trod solemnly toward the winter stream in a clamor of conch shells and cymbals. With ritual reverence, the first pilgrims rubbed the water into their skin and their eyes, then drank it. They believed from their scripture legends that they might thereby speed to Nirvana and be spared the pain of countless rebirths in man's universe...
...week's end, all were pronounced out of danger, and pediatricians found the cause of the outbreak. It carried a sharp warning for hospital nurseries everywhere. New diapers had been stamped with the hospital's name, and aniline oil from the ink had seeped through the skin into the babies' blood. A simple preventive: boil the diapers thoroughly, to get rid of excess oil, before using...