Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also a great credit was Williams's success in making the surrealistic fantasy, Adventures in the Skin Trade, not only clear but very, very funny. A lovely thing in both script and performance is Who Do You Wish Was With Us? And Thomas's description of his enormous uncle and the annual masculine booze outing is delightful, as indeed are the slightly self-conscious Reminiscences of a Schoolmaster and The Fight, a very amusing tale of the artist emerging from the child...
...glad the U.S. has not yet penetrated outer space. The American spacemen would want to start a "democracy" on the moon. I am sure the moon people would not like to send their children to separate schools just because their skin is green...
Schools & Skin...
...this score, a husband-wife team from Johns Hopkins University, Plastic Surgeon Milton T. Edgerton and Chemist Patricia J. Edgerton report that skin grafts from one strain of mice to another normally died within nine days, but could be made to live as long as 38 days if they were retransplanted several times at four-day intervals. This suggested that an organ donated for spare-part use might be conditioned so that it would no longer stimulate the recipient's system to produce antibodies. And a team at the University of Minnesota reported on work with rats and rabbits...
...from the often marvelously demented first part of Adventures in the Skin Trade, Williams gets his best turn of the evening. Here a Welsh youth reaches London, makes friends in the railway-station restaurant, and goes to a furniture dealer's crammed house where "chairs stood on couches that lay on tables" and conversation went on while people bounced up and down on spring mattresses or were hidden behind columns of chairs. At length the young man found himself in a locked bathroom with a girl trying to lure him into the tub with her. Here an evening that...