Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early 1560s. There he saw Indians-and concluded that there had to be a likeness between them and the lost tribes of primitive Britain. Hence the delicate Amazon, who might have stepped out of a court masque. Her tribal body painting is transmuted into an exquisite damask of skin tattoos; every detail of Le Moyne's image, from the green, parklike landscape and the rippling blonde hair to the jaunty flutter of tassel and petal, adds to the sense of a new-minted Arcadia. It is, of course, completely artificial...
...went as Conductor Milton Katims and the Seattle Symphony brought culture to the arctic climes of the 49th state, where music normally comes only from records, radio, TV or walrus-skin drums. Never before had any major orchestra visited the Alaskan bush or the treeless tundra. Never before, in all probability, had any orchestra's itinerary been such a travel agent's nightmare-covering 11,000 miles by plane, boat, bus and snowmobile to give 36 concerts in six days. The Seattleites were able to do so by splitting up, for much of the tour, into seven chamber...
...there is no interest in it at all. Baggy unisex clothing de-emphasizes the shape of the body, and in three weeks I did not see a single woman wearing a skirt or a dress. In Peking and Shanghai department stores, though, there was a wide array of skin creams at toiletries counters. At the Shanghai Industrial Exhibition, I asked a girl guide who used all the perfumes and lipsticks - in twelve shades of pink, purple-red and orange - that were on display. She tittered and said that they were for export. Later, a male member of the exhibit...
...unlikely philanderer, pale and mild-mannered. But according to Lora Gudbranson, 40, the wife of a naval supply officer, she and Jensen made love in a motel near the base last July 8. Testifying for the defense, Dr. Clay Wickham told the court that at the time the skin around Jensen's midsection had been covered with "a rash and boils," which would have made sex a painful enterprise at best. A character witness, Captain Thomas Loomis, who had served aboard the carrier Ticonderoga with Jensen, offered a well-meant if ill-phrased testimonial. Jensen, he said...
...wish to study a "granfalloon" Just remove the skin of a toy balloon...