Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Omitting the drearier aspects of the desert, the scorching days when even liazrds seek protection beneath the earth's parched skin, the photographers render the desert too colorful. The photographers had nerve-javelinas, even at the distance allowed by telephoto lenses, are desert dynamite. They also had patience, for tortoises carry on a languid courtship, even before a camera. Unfortunately the selection of scenes leaves a false impression, making the desert resemble "Arizona Highways Magazine" more than Arizona...
...think that in the course of another few thousand years, when the human race has become civilized . . .there will be only one skin shade-a golden blend of all the human strains on earth...
...excellent essays describe climatic reasons for the evolution of certain races and bodily characteristics in various parts of the world. In mammals, the same body temperature must be maintained in the Arctic and in the tropics. This is the reason the equatorial zones produce long fingers, dark skin, and short bodies in monkeys as well as humans, and the high latitudes account for the opposite characteristics...
...beauty is only skin deep, and a step inside Lamont will confirm that. Walk up to the door--no, no one will push the door into you, it's all glass, and you can see for miles in every direction. Why, there's one little girl who sits right by the door behind a counter, aiming her taut cashmere sweater...
...Most acne sufferers waste their time and money looking for magical skin nostrums. The University of Virginia's Dr. Clayton E. Wheeler, writing in the current G.P., the magazine of the American Academy of General Practice, offers simpier advice: use ordinary toilet soap. Only in severe cases of inflammatory skin disease is a doctor's prescription necessary. People bothered with any sort of acne, however, should avoid letting furs and woolens come in contact with the skin and should keep away from oils and greases. Since acne yields slowly, Wheeler also warns that the treatment must be persistent...