Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brazil's jaguars, tapirs and howler monkeys won a new lease on life last week when the government banned professional hunting. The law means that a dozen major skin exporters will have to close down. The authorities also issued a tough set of new regulations concerning amateur hunting, including a list of permissible game. Notably absent: all of the big cats, monkeys, toucans, manatees and all endangered species...
Andrea Burrell gets her grandmother to show how to make soap from lye and lard. U.G. McCoy tells how to skin and cook a coon. There are home remedies, snake lore, weather signs, quilt patterns and stitches, faith healing and mountain recipes: carrot pudding, a century-old recipe for gingerbread, even fried pumpkin and Spanish blossoms...
Femininity, to some nostrils, is a kind of scent that gets left on the work of art by skin contact. Sometimes it is a matter of technique: if Canadian-born Joyce Wieland executes a series of tenderly ironic icons of her native landscape, like Spring Tree, 1971, and does them by quilting, sewing and stuffing various cloths, it will inevitably be related to the small world of the sewing box; whereas if Claes Oldenburg sews and stuffs, it must be for other reasons...
...repression. "The work is me, my experience," says Grossman. "Everyone is a sadomasochist. The difference between me and other artists is that I admit it." So her masks, like Mary, 1971, are both armor and prison; the face and the implied personality behind it are abolished by the protective skin...
...prescribed. Physicians, however, generally are persuaded that the Pill is safe for most women, and so are researchers. They are working on such improvements as 1) a once-a-month Pill, 2) an injection that would function for three to six months and 3) a capsule implanted under the skin that releases hormones for a year or more...