Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This nondiet is clearly not for everyone. About 20% of those who sign up eventually drop out. Others have occasional lapses, like yielding to the temptation of an ice cream sundae, though most seem to lose their appetites entirely. A few complain of dizziness, dry skin and hair loss in the first weeks. But if they can endure, the fasting pays off. Vertes says that of the more than 750 patients who have been treated, some 80% have lost at least 80 lbs.-to say nothing of such benefits as the reduction of blood sugar in diabetics or the lowering...
...John Magoun's lighting is downright incompetent; areas go dark and light quite abruptly for no discernible reason. Anne Higonnet's costumes help establish an endearingly seedy atmosphere, although Scapino himself should show a bit more panache and the two ingenues should, to be blunt, show a bit more skin...
...Cavalcanti (known simply as "Di") rejected the military career planned for him in favor of a bohemian life. During the 1920s and '30s, he worked in Paris along with Picasso, Braque and Matisse, then returned to Brazil to paint bright, bold, cubist landscapes and sensuous mulatto women whose skin, he said, "is silk and reflects...
...Yale's team is like an onion," Sadowsky said in a paraphrase of Mao. "You may think it is dead but its heart is alive underneath that skin. The people are like the ocean," he said...
...typical crab louse attaches itself to the base of a pubic hair, burrows into the skin, feeds on the host's blood, and lays visible whitish eggs, Dr. Nicholas Fiumara, head of the communicable disease department of the Massachusetts department of pubic health said yesterday...