Word: skin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part of the rite of passage." The senior jumper in his unit made a little speech, then handed out the wings. "I was the first guy in line, and he pinned it on my uniform and gave me the punch. The thing would go into your chest, break the skin, draw blood, but every day we had bigger bruises and bumps than that. We looked at our wings very pridefully, put the clips on the back, sat down and had dinner--and that was it." At first Trainor thought the furor was "the politically correct people trying to emasculate...
...that pretty or even that new, seeing as its possessor, actor-auteur Billy Bob Thornton, is 41 and has been kicking around films for a decade. But those who have seen Thornton as Karl Childers in Sling Blade can't get that face out of their bad dreams. The skin is celibate smooth, the eyes clamped shut to keep the demons out, or in. And when the pursed mouth opens, it speaks, in a barrelly bass, of dreadful sins and Old Testament vengeance. Karl is a slow-witted killer--he murdered his mother and her lover when...
...that queasy feeling at the office? It may not be your boss. A small Swedish study finds that, in some people, flickering light from a COMPUTER SCREEN can cause brain waves to spike to unusually high levels--which may give rise to fatigue, headache and tingling skin...
...capable of the grand and tasteful gesture. He is the student-government president who was elected overwhelmingly because no one else in school could do the job as well, or no one else wanted it--thus the opinion polls approving of his "performance." Yet he gets under people's skin as perhaps no other President ever...
...like Time Uncovering Truth, c. 1743. These, one is inclined to think, are among the first "modern" beauties in painting. Not wardrobes of flesh like Rubens' goddesses, not pneumatic dolls like Boucher's nymphs, they are (relatively) slender, blond to redhead, and have the minxy arrogance and perfectly toned skin of runway models, inaccessible, gazing down from their nests of vapor in the blue-rinsed sky above. In Tiepolo, the women always seem to be running the show; his emblematic heroes like Rinaldo, by comparison, look almost effeminate...