Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started, recalls Designer Charles Prior Hall, with an "incredibly horrible thing" in his apartment. "I built a chair that was 300 lbs. of liquid starch encased in a vinyl skin. You would sit in this thing and it would creep up around you." The Incredible Creeping Chair, as Hall called it, failed to make the impact that he hoped for. But his efforts to improve it led him to a much splashier creation, which is now making an appearance-and creating a sensation -in department stores across the nation. It is the water bed, the bounciest bedroom invention since...
...women caught at the vortex of a changing continent have naturally experienced a certain confusion about their identity. The extensive sale of hair straighteners, skin-lightening creams and $20 wigs bears witness to this fact. Many would undoubtedly like to emulate the handful of women who have attained the sophistication that marks them as black Frenchwomen and black Englishwomen. One woman of such apparent glamour is Younouss N'Diaye, a sensuous actress and painter who lived in France for five years before returning to Dakar, where she appears on television and has starred in a Senegalese motion picture...
...union action, together with a New York state law forbidding the sale of furs from 14 endangered species, has caused consternation in the skin trade. Some manufacturers have challenged the new law in court. Retailers, particularly in New York City, have slashed prices on spotted furs in order to liquidate stocks. Ben Kahn, for example, is selling $12,000 leopard coats for $6,000 and $6,000 cheetah coats...
Hiram Jaffe (Gould) walks dogs in Central Park by day and writes skin books by night. All the while, his wife Dolly (Paula Prentiss) pelts him with Freudianisms that she has picked up as a psychiatrist's secretary...
...promising use of thermography is in medicine. By spotting unusual temperature changes on the skin, doctors have been able to locate tumors, detect symptoms foreshadowing strokes, explore the extent of arthritic inflammation, gauge the severity of burns. If human skin is too warm, it may well mean increased metabolic activity and blood temperature underneath it, one of the signs of a malignancy. Cold skin may indicate dead tissue, as in severe burns, or reduced blood circulation, a clue to circulatory blockages...