Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twelve-year-old creamy-skinned, apple-cheeked Regan (Linda Blair), daughter of a famous actress divorcee (Ellen Burstyn) living in the heart of Georgetown society, is possessed mind and body by the devil. Her face grows bloated, crossed by pusfilled lesions; her eyes become cat's orbs that crawl back in her head; her skin swells and turns a swamp color; her hair gets sticky and snaky; her voice comes out the croak of a just-cured male mute; convulsions contort her body and it flips like a wounded crocodile's tail; she drools green gook when...
...like so many other "nostalgia" films. Instead, when this movie gives us manners, culture and seemingly superficial trends, it does so with a sense of history that is key to the attitudes of the characters involved. In 1962, a generation was desperate and restless, bursting out of its skin. As it began to define itself against the constant background of radio and TV, a get-up-and-go, frontier mentality built up, confused but real, only to find expression later in the decade. Here in '62, though, before the assassination, the experience of the civil rights movement, the Beatles...
...sweet young thing, innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving as plain lechery. His ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders wearing shades and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody--the Western hero turned outcase. One the run, a hunted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martyr's glory--at this point the movie gets boring--he dodges the cops a while longer and then gets shot...
Procedures and costs differ from hospital to hospital. The male-to-female operation, which costs from $3,000 to $5,000, is by far the easier and more satisfactory. After amputation of the penis and testicles, an artificial vagina is created, using scrotal or penile tissue or skin grafts from the thigh or hip. Because the penile tissue is still sensitive, male-to-female transexuals may experience orgasm, though of course pregnancy is impossible...
...more vulnerable to psychosexual disorders than women. Moreover, female-to-male operations are more difficult, more lengthy and more costly (up to $12,000). Breasts are removed, a hysterectomy performed, and in some cases a miniature penis is created by freeing the clitoris from its connective tissue. In others, skin grafts and silicone forms are used to create a penis which may bring a sexual partner to orgasm but has no sensation in itself...