Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forms. In the lofty class this week Manhattan's rich M. Knoedler & Co. presented "Classics of the Nude"-31 pictures from Pollaiuolo to Picasso. This was a good idea. The linear play and complex modeling of the human body, the textures, transparencies and color subtleties of the skin, have made nude painting what Bernard Berenson called "the most absorbing problem of classic art." To do the subject justice an exhibition would have to include several items not visible at Knoedler's. Among them: 1) a nude by Giorgione, Titian's great Venetian contemporary; 2) an example...
...bottom air is withdrawn, sucking the bag in, until it forms a neat lining on the cylinder's walls. The chicken is popped in, air is exhausted from the bag, its mouth is closed. Then as the bag is dipped in warm water, it shrinks to fit skin-tight and almost invisible around the chicken...
...papers against Angelo Siciliano (naked name: Charles Atlas), mailorder musclebuilder. Their orders: that he stop using the word "free" in connection with a ten-volume Sex Encyclopedia offer (customers get them after they have paid up all of a $20 fee for lessons), stop stating that his course relieves skin diseases and constipation, tone down his claims that he can make his customers look something like himself ("World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" in a leopardskin loincloth). Hopping mad, Strongman Atlas gritted: "Why don't they leave me alone with all the important work...
...bones or connective tissue, especially in the legs and arms. Cancer of the uterus or breast occurs in women at menopause, but cancer of the stomach or intestine rarely occurs in women under 50. Cancer of the prostate gland usually attacks only old men. Cancer of the skin may appear at any age, but most skin cancers are found in old persons...
Brenda Frazier's beauty is not only "skin deep." It is illuminated by a mentality, a depth of feeling, and a strength of character unusual in one so young, so beautiful and so universally admired. . . . Does this . . . suggest that imprisoned in this tiny body is a typically feminine heart that yearns adventure at the side of a strong, dominating personality...