Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stitched into his left atrium, to draw off blood before it reaches the ventricle (see diagram). The second tube is connected to the aorta, to return pumped blood to general circulation. The tubes are then led down through the surgical incision in the chest and placed under the skin of the upper abdomen...
...film "festivals" starting in Boston and Cambridge this week celebrate what are probably the cinema's two most popular genres--the whodunit and the skin flick. In the sixties film festivals tended to showcase a great actor or director, and the nearly constant Bergman and Bogart festivals at places like the Brattle Square are holdovers from those days. Now they tend to focus on particular genres. These festivals aren't Hitchoock festivals or even Radley Metzger festivals; they aim to show the whole range of detective films and erotic films, the good, the bad, and the commercial, the typical...
...giant slalom. While they had been skiing well in Hampshire, the hard edging techniques that they acquired were not the fastest way down the flat OS course. Raines, Adler and sophomore Peter Anton finished a disappointing 29th, 31st, and 38th respectively. Peter Andersen of Dartmouth sporting a skin tight silvery blue downhill suit won the race with a technically superb...
...torrent of screaming black mothers: faces stretched wide in terror, skin dewy in fight, peels back from the front. They have pulled the wings of their coats over their children. From beneath his mother's mantle, a boy whoops with delight...
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain is manifestly sympathetic to the Indians who call themselves traditionals and refer to other, "sellout" Indians as "Apples"-that is, red on the outside, all white just below the skin. The movie has something urgent to say, but its theme and the situation it portrays are so tragically familiar that much of their impact is vitiated. Despite Robert Redford's narration, Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain is also a shambles, manufactured with the kind of earnest clumsiness that gives documentaries a bad name...