Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barely filmic, let alone artistic. The Astor Theatre on Tremont Street was showing Private School Girls, a German import. I had not been enticed by the silly ad in the Globe ("Karen made the Dean's List... and a few others"), but by a simple desire to see what skin flicks were all about...
Louisiana officials know that there is more than one way to skin a gator. Still determined to thin out the swamp population, they recently "offered" more than 2,000 of the reptiles to the Audubon Society. The organization's leaders bravely accepted the gift, and plan to truck the alligators to refuges in other Southern states. In the bargain, Audubon officials also got some free advice from William Summerville, general curator of the Staten Island Zoo in New York City: "Keep their backs sprayed while they're in the truck so they don't dry out. Make...
...abolish the humanist past-that area of art that insists that man is the flower of the universe and can, by force and subtlety of intellect, control it. His images assert the opposite: a nude becomes a lump of hairy pink clay with a pinhead, swagging numbles and a skin so gouged by fissures, cracks and graffiti that it is on the verge of turning into a landscape. The hierarchy of human to animal to vegetable to mineral is abolished; the popeyed homunculi who scurry like moles through his landscapes or rear up, delicately rainbow-tinted like decaying fungi...
...satisfy him. He will push even harder for generous fringe benefits and, above all, tough safety rules. Coal mining is a hazardous occupation, and Miller himself suffers from black-lung disease, contracted because of a lifetime of working in the pits. It has left him with a pasty skin and anemic look that, combined with steel-gray hair, makes him appear at least ten years older than his actual...
...that karate takes years to master, advocates screaming as a possible alternative. Sandy Pinches of the East Lansing center wholeheartedly advocates force: "A karate chop to the Adam's apple can kill a guy. Or you can stomp down with your heels on his shins-rip out his skin there or smash his instep." In Washington, the center recommends carrying spray oven cleaners, plastic lemons for squirting juice or ammonia, lighted cigarettes ("smash out in eye"), or corkscrews ("jab quickly and directly, then twist...