Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though drum carriers have been wearing furs ever since the mid-18th century, the ministry nonetheless agreed last week not to buy any more skins. What happens when the present supply runs low? Well, there is a company near London that makes synthetic skins for $40 (v. $300 for a good leopard skin and $550 for a tiger), but the bandsmen may not have to stoop to that just yet. "There must be thousands of skins from the old raj days being used as rugs or knocking around in attics," said Colonel Rodney Bashford, director of the Royal Military School...
...best late paintings (none of which could be lent to Cleveland) rely absolutely on this tension between commonplace detail and sublime staging. Caught between the transfiguring light and the gnawing darkness, his figures acquired a mysterious, haunting irrationality. Sometimes the flow of light actually contradicts the muscles and skin that Caravaggio studied with such care. The final effect is not, for this reason, "realist" at all, but the impact remains. It is the violent blackness of Macbeth...
American consumer advocate Ralph Nader, during a recent visit to Tokyo, cited the city as "a notorious symbol of world-wide pollution." During one smoggy week in July, over 8,000 people were treated in Tokyo hospitals for severe eye and skin irritation and other pollution-induced ailments. Tokyo traffic policemen will not stand at busy cross-roads longer than 30 minutes, and 40 junctions have oxygen machines available. Most of Japan's gasoline derives from Middle Eastern oil, which contains particularly large quantities of pollutants...
Porn and Corn. According to one count, some 720 of the U.S.'s 14,450 moviehouses are specializing in skin flicks, a 60% increase since 1968. Sexploitation movies seem to be past their prime in some areas, newly blooming in others. Chicago Exhibitor Herschell...
Couple No. 2 (Christian Holder and Rebecca Wright), in revealing skin-toned body suits that appear to have been glued on, carry out a lyrical sequence of serpentine, limb-entangling maneuvers that resemble moving illustrations for a graduate course in the Kamasutra. The third duo (Susan Magno and Tony Catanzaro) assay an updated version of that dreadful comic cliche of Pigalle nightclubs, an apache dance. The will-they, won't-they jousting ends, amusingly enough, when the girl resoundingly slaps her passionate but reluctant lover. He swats her one right back...