Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than the phenomenon of regeneration. The lowly starfish can regrow any missing parts and may even produce an entire creature from a single arm; the salamander can regenerate much of its body. Higher animals, however, lack this ability. Mammals cannot replace a missing tail or internal organs. In man, skin and bone regrowth comes closest to the true regenerative process...
...infants in the studies developed skin lesions, diarrhea, and respiratory infections, and were subject to marked growth retardation...
...this special sort of rain. Oh; and if the sun shone down just this way, not sparkling in that fertile vernal brightness, but muted, and almost invisible. The sun singing this gentle and soft gray song, like drumsticks covered with cotton, or felt; beating very softly on a loosened skin...
...Italian government's antiquities bureau for southern Etruria, rejects this aesthetic evaluation as too narrow. "Maybe a new generation of men will come," says Scichilone, "who are finally ready to appreciate the fact that the Euphronios vase by itself is nothing more than a war trophy, a lion skin. You can't get any historical meaning from archaeology until you deal with tomb groups, not single items. The tomb group of Euphronios might have helped write for the first time a few lines of entirely new history about Etruria, about Etruscan trade and economy of life...
...disembodied. In most of his pictures, Unger successfully maintains the tension of treating a normally expressive subject with the eye of an architect; the few shots in which the position of the hands is neither gesture nor arresting form are disappointing. The communication of the texture--both of skin and of darkness--in these predominantly black photographs is impeccable...