Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking her to the night spots. At the gaudy Lido on the Champs Elysées, there was an embarrassment. Evita, dressed for the first time in black, picked at lobster, watched the floor show. At the show's end two men inside a camel's skin go through various antics under the spotlight; the climax comes when the camel's rear presents a bouquet to a woman spectator. Evita was selected for the honor. She was not amused, stalked out to the sniggers of other diners...
Fernandes' wrinkled parchment skin, his few wisps of grey hair, his stooped walk, belie his energy and drive. When he stands against a window in his second-floor office in Rio's ornate Itamarati Palace, it seems almost possible to see through his fragile frame. Yet Fernandes tackles a diplomatic fight with all the enthusiasm of a young attache...
Recently Tora San suffered another act of indignity. Thieves broke into his cage, stripped off his skin from tail to ears. Tokyo's police thought that the remains of Tora San were well on their way to becoming tiger-skin wallets. Last week police found a tiger's head, placed it in Tora San's cage. But keepers and children (who know their tigers) indignantly insisted that the new head was not Tora San's. This one had been ripped off somebody...
...Rome there were also unpolitical G.I.s on hand to meet Eva at the airport and give a low wolf-whistle as she emerged from her private plane in slick, flower-printed silk pulled skin-tight over her hips and bosom. There was an audience with the Pope, luncheon with the Foreign Minister, a Grand Hotel reception glittering with papal titles, and a dazzling performance of A'ïda under the stars in the ancient Baths of Caracalla. Eva, in black flowered silk with a white fox cape, her hair, ear lobes and shapely neck glittering with diamonds, arrived...
...skin is full of very small holes. . . . We sweat through these holes. When we sweat we get rid of poison. . . . When our skin is dirty the holes are full and the poison cannot get out. Then we get sick...