Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Janet E. Thomas, whose letter [March 18] got under my skin: Did you ever stop to think that the trouble lies with the guy you married, who entertains you by dropping off to sleep every night, and not by the lack of concerts, theaters and dances in Baltimore, your "lousy burg...
...Shook Up) Presley, rolled rockily into Chicago for his first visitation there, succeeded in slaughtering some 13,000 of his worshipers in the Stockyards' packed International Amphitheater. Appropriately, The Pelvis was got up in an outfit that could embarrass Liberace-a suit of gold lamé and the skin of an unborn calf, plus golden shoes (24-carat coating, claimed his handlers) to match. In an earlier session with dazzled newshounds, Elvis disclosed one of his great personal sorrows: "Ah always wanted sideburns, but Ah cain't grow a mustache...
...thrown in the wastebucket or dropped on the floor. Pick it up. wash it and get on with the job. It happens in the best of clinics!" And, as the kickoff to a chapter entitled "Flap Happy," there are these wry definitions: "A graft is a piece of detached skin which is dead when you put it on and comes to life later. A flap is a partly attached piece of skin which is alive when you put it on and may die later...
Ears, Eyebrows. Much plastic surgery involves correcting abnormalities about the face. A child may be born with a malformed ear, or no ear. Surgeon Gillies sometimes uses beef cartilage as the base for sculpturing a new ear with flaps of the child's skin, but he prefers to get cartilage from the mother's ear. This can be done without disfiguring her, and as Gillies notes tartly, she can wear her hair low to cover the scar-which her son cannot. Such grafts have lasted 15 years. In one remarkable case, Gillies used part of a woman...
...book is painful and embarrassing on many counts. It asks the reader to share what Lael Tucker Wertenbaker calls her "abstract joy in the quality of his death," after which her "winter-white skin turned quite black and stayed dark for two days." It reports every intimate clinical detail of the pain, distress and hopelessness that afflict the victim of terminal cancer. As such, it tends to force into silence critics who may feel that they have been invited to share a private rite that Lael Tucker created about her dying husband-but who have doubts about its public validity...