Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prophet called Lehi was told by God to leave Jerusalem. He took his family to the American continent. Here the house of Lehi split into two warring nations: the good, God-fearing Nephites, begetters of white children, and the bad, idolatrous Lamanites, whose children God punished with a red skin-hence the American Indians...
...Exit begins at a scream pitch, just under the thin skin of hysteria, and sustains that pitch for an hour and a half. Whatever your views on decibel drama, the Harvard Summer Theatre Group's production is excellent...
...Hostile Streets. Along the heavily traveled road from Amman to Jerusalem there are eight police checkpoints. Jordanian passengers in cars and buses are searched to the skin for arms. Almost all the Palestinian refugees (there are half a million in Jordan) are hostile to Hussein's government. Taxi drivers and civil servants, businessmen and doctors (first looking cautiously over their shoulders) admit to being pro-Nasser and anti-Hussein. A government censor scans the Amman newspapers to be sure they contain nothing critical of King Hussein; yet he also smilingly taps a picture of Egypt's Nasser...
...master. Painter Franz Kline, asked what he was trying to express, replied: "When I was young, I was 19. Does that answer your question?" With few exceptions, critics do little better. Art News once described one of Mark Rothko's works as "haunted, like the shining skin of an opulent eggplant, by the clay-colored echo of a final and unbreakable promise." The point, as Louis Armstrong once said of jazz, seems to be: "When you got to ask what it is, you'll never get to know...
...cannot concentrate. He can never quite get his mind off Vashni, an old sweetheart with the heat of youthful summers "always close about her, like an extra fragrance, that of a blossom crisping in the sun, which the kiss found under the heavy gold anklets that polished the skin, and behind her knees . . ." Most important of all, for almost 20 hours a day, seven days a week, he is busy catering to an oddball group of well-heeled vagrants -perverted dress designers, roundheeled models, superannuated opera stars, blue-nosed diplomats, alcoholic newlyweds and assorted upper-class deadbeats...