Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast for the role. His lion head, swept with a sensuously flowing mane of black hair that in recent years has been greying at the temples, makes him seem a big man, even though he is stocky and only 5 ft. 8½ in. tall. The jaw is powerful, the skin rough and swart, the profile jutting and rudely masculine, the lips sensitively curved and humorous. At a glance from Bernstein, men recognize an extraordinary personality, and women acquire the expression of poleaxed sheep; he exudes sex appeal like a leaky electric eel. He chooses his clothes with care...
...secret" (estimate: over 275 Ibs.): "I do not mind being jumped upon by some hideous . . . painted Jezebel who shrilly proclaims that her weight is perfect and who looks upon my rotund figure with abhorrence . . . What one can see of her under the .mask of chemical cosmetics seems muddy . . . Her skin is wrinkled . . . neck is unsightly and flabby . . . hips big in contrast to skinny toothpick legs . . . She has to take Epsom salts for her bowels . . . barbiturates to counteract the effect of coffee and to allow her to sleep." Dr. Lee, a onetime stammerer, states: "People have asked me who psychoanalyzed...
Acting as moderator, Myerberg outlined his well-known courageous philosophy that someone must put on "new works that might someday have classic stature, even though there is no chance of aiming at a mass audience" (he was the first to produce Thornton Wilder's "enigmatic" Skin of Our Teeth...
Peerless at Princeton. Listerine was the creation of Lambert's father, a chemist who developed the antiseptic formula (useful in that it was bland and harmless to skin and other tissue). Father Lambert scraped together sufficient funds to get to London and there "invested his last dollar in an elegant carriage with a liveried coachman." Helped by this haughty equipage, he coaxed from Lord Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, the right to christen the new formula with the great man's name...
...physical corruption inside her. "After all," she said, "it's only the body." In the hospital room the struggle was fought with blood transfusions, morphine injections, intravenous feeding, catheterizations. The child was wrenched with pain, grew more and more emaciated as bedsores spread across her sensitive skin, and it became increasingly difficult to find places to insert the daily needles. But there were pauses, too, when death drew back as if exhausted. There were enough of these precious moments for the creation of rituals. Each night mother and daughter watched for the flights of starlings that flooded past their...