Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lotto was a 16th century forerunner of Degas in France and Eakins in America. Like them, he tried to portray not just the skull beneath the skin, but also the brain beneath the skull. He was by turns humorous, analytical and bizarre, but never very bold. Instead of the grand simplicity fashionable in his day, Lotto offered narrow complexity. He was perhaps the first great "psychological painter," so of course the 20th century cottons...
Strange Deception. An allegorical manhunt with a postwar Italian setting, powerfully filmed by Novelist Curzio (The Skin) Malaparte (TIME, June...
...Army's Walter Reed General Hospital did not show definitely what was wrong, but by a process of elimination they raised a suspicion of cancer. Senator Taft flew to Cincinnati and entered Christian R. Holmes Hospital. There, samples of tissue were taken from nodules found under his skin. The tissues contained abnormal cells. To double-check, Cincinnati sent samples to Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. Memorial's pathologists agreed that the cells indicated a "malignancy." What kind, or where it had started, no one could be sure. Taft was told that he "might...
...excessive perspiration, and the Hip Bath daily; eat only a quarter of a pound of Butcher's Meat in 24 hours, no Suppers or Breakfast, only one Meal a day; drink no malt liquor, but a little Wine, and take Physic occasionally. By these means my Ribs display Skin of no great Thickness & my Clothes have been taken in nearly half a yard...
Strange Deception. An allegorical manhunt with a postwar Italian setting, powerfully filmed by Novelist Curzio (The Skin) Malaparte (TIME, June...