Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Resnais's efforts to give his film grave historical significance, Stavisky remains first and foremost a mood picture, an evocation of a sensibility. Stavisky's mise en scene is more important than its philosophical point. Its characters are only skin deep, if they go even that far--usually they stop, on purpose, at the make-up. Talleyrand said of those who were born after 1789 that they could never really know how good life could be. The same feeling--a combination of nostalgia, snobbery, and contempt for the newfangled present--permeates Stavisky. The final value judgement on this feeling, though...
...surgeon" palming a reddish-yellow object. During the operation, he watched the psychic double up his hands so that it would look as if they were inside Nolen's body. Nolen, who knows a little anatomy, was not fooled: the surgeon's hands never even penetrated his skin. Nor was Nolen impressed by the results of the operation. The surgeon held up the blob he had been concealing in his hand and told Nolen he had removed a tumor. Nolen, who has removed enough tumors to know what one looks like, recognized the tissue as a lump...
...School professor Paul Freund had occasion to recall his second meeting with Oliver Wendell Holmes. "We went up to the second floor study, where Holmes was seated, starched and stiffly erect in his ninety-third year, behind his desk. He wore a black cutaway and striped trousers, his skin was parchment, his hair luxuriant and silver, his cavalryman's moustachioes abundantly flowing." Freund remembered...
...directly to women who worry about having dimpled flesh, "jodhpur thighs," "saddlebag buttocks" and other imperfections. These are caused, says Mme. Ronsard, by cellulite, which she defines as a gel-like substance made up of fat, water and wastes that becomes trapped in lumpy, immovable pockets just beneath the skin. Cellulite cannot be burned off by conventional diets, says Ronsard; even when poundage is pared away, this "superfat" remains...
...find fault with Ronsard's physiology. What the author calls cellulite is plain ordinary fat and certainly not toxic wastes, says Physiologist Marci Greenwood, a research associate at Columbia University's Institute of Human Nutrition. The dimpling effect, says Greenwood, often is caused by the loss of skin elasticity that occurs with aging. Nor is there any way to get rid of the dimpling. Exercise and proper diet may improve skin and muscle tone and make this excess adipose tissue less obvious, but it will not make it go away. Says Greenwood: "Body type, like hair color...