Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cold feet, in fact, became a very real problem for both Shaw and Sochurek, but the -74° temperatures that they encountered proved especially difficult for the photographer. The moving parts of his camera froze, the film turned brittle, and the metal adhered to his skin whenever he tried to focus the lens...
When police arrived at the museum following the theft, blood, skin, and fingerprints were found on the coin display case, and three buttons from the torn shirt were discovered on the floor...
...Medicine has known for years that a virus of the papova group causes warts, horny skin growths that can develop-and disappear-rapidly. Yet doctors cannot agree upon the proper cure. Some recommend surgery, cautery with an electric needle, localized freezing, or acid to burn away the tissue; a few even fall back on folk remedies like touching warts with a copper penny or with a slice of raw potato. Now a group of Massachusetts General Hospital physicians has reported in the Archives of General Psychiatry that warts can also be removed by hypnosis. The researchers reached this conclusion after...
...calming his art, endowing it with a magisterial breadth of form and outline, a simplicity of hue and an archaic, pre-classical subject matter. His Nymph and Satyr, 1909, belongs much more to the world of Hesiod than to the Renaissance vision of antiquity. Three colors: pink for the skin, blue for the strip of lake and green for the fields and hills. Two figures: the nymph tripped and falling, the satyr reaching down to seize her. It is the most basic of schemes, but the subtleties of expression it discloses are almost inexhaustible: how the satyr's muscular...
Pride. Life offstage was no less strenuous. Melchior consumed mammoth meals, washed down by heroic quantities of aquavit and Danish beer. He traveled widely and was an enthusiastic big-game hunter. (He liked to wear the skin of a deer he had bagged as his costume in Siegfried.) He took great joy in entertaining friends with his wife "Kleinchen" during festive holidays like Christmas, when he unabashedly decked himself out as a jolly Santa Claus...