Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Only the skeleton remained before Fabian... Above all other abandoned, useless and decaying parts of the dead horse's body, the skeleton bothered Fabian most. Unlike the animal's skin or blood, the intestines, lungs, nerves or muscles, each a forge of moisture and heat, a furnace of life, the skeleton, with its two hundred and more bones that Fabian had once counted, seemed no more complex than the crude pillars, posts, joints and frames that made up the barn - and no more mysterious...
...apiece at so-called implant clinics. The hair is really thousands of colored strands of polyester or modacrylic fiber, usually in bunches of three to eight strands.* The fibers are threaded into the scalp by needle or forced in by air guns and sometimes anchored below the skin with knots...
...underneath. The bleeding and itching drive you crazy. You wake up and find the pillow covered with blood." Natural hair may fall out too. Correcting the damage can take years. The fibers must be removed, and antibiotics taken to control infection. Some patients may require scalp removal and skin grafting...
...Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission have launched investigations, and local authorities are cracking down. Some people are suing. Few of the clinics are run by medically qualified skin specialists, but the trade is obviously lucrative. In 1978 Donald Underwood, an osteopath, is said by the New York State attorney general to have earned $1 million from his now shuttered Long Island clinics. Some operators are switching to a new ploy: offering to implant human hair fibers. But dermatologists warn that fibers collected from a number of people can provoke even more serious problems...
...brokerage firm in San Francisco: "Yacht sales will remain strong but sailboats will be down," a sign that while millionaire boatowners remain secure weekend sailors are financially vulnerable. Then again, as always in recessionary times, women are continuing to buy cosmetics regardless of cost. At the fancy Georgette Klinger skin care salons in New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills and Bal Harbour, Fla., sales of treatments and assorted preparations have continued to rise at 20% per year. But this year, reports Owner Klinger, people are economizing by "buying larger quantities-two and three quarts of skin care products rather than...