Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After spending two months in a San Francisco hospital, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek arrived in New York City to take further treatment for a skin ailment and to visit with her sister, Mme. H. H. Kung, on Long Island...
Holes & Lumps. Ritchie's show begins with some of the early giants: Auguste Rodin's skin-smooth St. John the Baptist. with its supple lines and easy Renaissance grace; Arietide Maillol's pensive Mediterranean, heavier and thicker; Constantin Brancusi's early abstractions. All the abstractions of the '20s and '30s, says Ritchie, flowed out of the work and theory of those three men. Rodin used to say that sculpture was merely "the hole and the lump"; his admirers carried the idea to a ruthlessly literal conclusion...
...Spain's Bishop Ruy Lopez recognized this as early as the 16th century when he recommended that an opponent always be seated so that the light shone in his eyes. Reshevsky's icy calm has a similar unsettling effect on his opponents. But the calm is only skin-deep. After match play, Samuel often breaks into a heavy sweat. When he has lost a game, or drawn one he should have won, sleep escapes him: "I go over and over it in my mind, searching for what went wrong. If I find it, I stay awake kicking myself...
...goes, reporting all the horrors he can remember and imagine-a "flag made of human skin" fluttering in the breeze, the rows of crucified Jews he saw on a Ukrainian steppe, the time an Allied general served his guests a boiled child (or was it relly only a fish that looked almost human...
...second autobiographical account, The Skin, Malaparte has done for his new masters what he did for his old in Kaputt. The treatment is just as popular, too. The Skin has already sold 100,000 copies in Italy, 200,000 in France, 250,000 in Germany, and is a bestseller in Argentina, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain...