Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suntan oils may cause inflammation at the very time they are protecting the skin against sunburn, warned Dermatologist Wiley M. Sams of Miami. Some ingredients can filter out part of the ultraviolet rays, but simultaneously sensitize the skin to other rays...
Baird Associates workers had lots of fun looking at distant islands in Boston harbor on pitch-black nights and taking darkroom pictures of the office staff. One of the girls, photographed by the heat-rays flowing out of her skin, proved to have a cold nose...
...Fort Bravo-hit hard. And for Stalag, in which he played a scrounging U.S. sergeant in a German prison camp, Holden won an Oscar as the year's best actor. He deserved it. The boy next door had become the type in the back room, with rat-grey skin and rat-quick eyes and a furtive softness in the way he moved; for the first time, Bill had almost managed to lose himself in a part. After seeing the picture, one fan who came in late remarked: "That man was wonderful-and you know, he looks an awful...
...memories of having to go to bed as a boy-"the wretched candle must be put out and he lie there . . . abandoned . . . to the horrible, the shapeless suffering which, little by little, would grow as vast as solitude." But Proust, with youthful naivete, tried to protect his own thin skin and his mother's feelings by pretending that he was not writing autobiography. In an introduction to Jean Santeuil, he declared the book to be the posthumous work of a novelist named "C." and a faith ful record of C.'s personal experiences...
...modern half of the program featured the first performance of Karl Kohn's A Latin Fable, for male chorus and piano four-hands. The fable concerns the ass who put on a lion's skin, but Kohn set it rather didactically, giving humor no place. His music was astringent and powerful, and was probably more rewarding to listen to than to sing...