Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellow black instead of Arum. King used every selling technique he knew, including quoting the teachings of Herbert's father, Elijah. After weeks of frantic pursuit, Ali agreed. Immediately, King was off to California to approach Foreman. Catching the champion in a parking lot, King pointed to the skin on his arm, and said, "This is my promotion. And I'm black." After several hours, Foreman shook hands on the $10 million deal...
...SSTs will be in service by the end of the century. If they all fly, the researchers warn, the nitrogen oxides generated would have a thinning effect on the ozone shield. Without this critical protection, people would run a much higher risk of going blind and of contracting skin cancer...
What is bigger than a bakery truck, has skin like sandpaper, three rows of pointy white teeth and beady black eyes? Of course, it is Hollywood's newest star: a 25-ft. mechanical great white shark named Bruce...
...Bruces are indeed paragons of piscine verisimilitude. Their gray and white polyurethane skin, sprayed with a fine-grained silica, is authentically sandpapery enough to be the envy of all the lady sharks at sea. Their eyes dart frighteningly, then-great tails are fully articulated, and their three-way stretch jaws-with head-and-shoulder roominess-are filled with three rows of pearly polyurethane teeth...
...though the new star is coddled with his own 200-ft. by 75-ft. "Shark City" workshop and a corps of 23 crewmen in daily attendance, all of Bruce's schizoid personae are temperamental. He has a shocking tendency to corrode after his daily saltwater swishing. His grainy skin is subject to sun bleach too, so every week he needs a new epidermis. When not skillfully supervised, in fact, Bruce simply gets out of hand. Three weeks ago, during a difficult diving scene, he hauled off and rammed headfirst into his control platform. His nose job took a week...