Word: skin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FISSURE FIX Relief is reported for the painful skin tears known as anal fissures. Injecting the area with a tiny amount of botulinum toxin--yes, the stuff that causes botulism--seems to allow the sphincter to relax. That creates more blood flow--and helps the fissure heal...
These kids, growing up in the age of digital thermometers, didn't know that they were playing with a poison--one that can be absorbed through vapors or prolonged contact with the skin. They didn't know that the expression "mad as a hatter" refers to the 19th century workmen who used mercury to cure beaver skins for top hats and over time developed nervous twitches, drooled and spoke incoherently...
...seems to live in the skin of characters whose skin you might not even want to touch. His trick is to find the surprising private clue: that, say, Adolf Eichmann, whom he played in a TV movie, "loved his kids, doted on them. That gave me a starting point." Or that Stalin (an Emmy-winning HBO turn) could force himself to talk sympathetically to his daughter--"I felt that was as good a work as I've done." So to get inside America's greatest underrated actor, we should look for that secret quirk, that strange but true passion...
...Life (due this fall) and a sequel to Toy Story (1999). Next on the 3-D animation studio's plate are convincingly rendered humans, the first of which appears in an imaginative short called Geri's Game. Director Jan Pinkava used powerful new software tools to create the skin and facial expressions of an old codger battling his alter ego in a to-the-death chess match. Heightening the realism is a program that simulates the physics of cloth so that the creases and folds of Geri's jacket follow his every move. "This is about getting ordinary bits...
...production of skin tissue for grafting purposes or perfectly-matched bone marrow are two of the most commonly mentioned benefits of human cloning, and scientists fear Seed's proclamation will deter their efforts to develop such potentially life-saving derivatives, casting them as monsters and mad scientists...