Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sculptor Edwards' specialty is hands. He can take an impression of a man's good left hand, make him a right-hand copy of it so realistic that even the fine skin lines show. The hand will hold a pencil or cigaret (see cut), and the fingers bend naturally if leaned against something solid. The coloring is lifelike (if it wears off, it can be touched up temporarily with leg make-up). An Edwards hand and arm costs...
Johnny Weissmuller emitted a high-pitched cry: "I've been wearing animal-skin scanties too long. My chest is calloused from beating it, and I've climbed more trees than a lumberjack. My lines have read like a backward two-year-old talking to his nurse." His program of dress reform, in order of his new movie costumes: 1) a Marine combat-correspondent's uniform, 2) a cowboy outfit, 3) a business suit, 4) perhaps, eventually, evening dress...
...healing time safely, he offers a compromise technique. First Dr. Buie determines the direction of the cyst's channels with a probe. Then he opens up each channel, removes the normal skin above it and, if the cyst wall is reasonably healthy, stitches the wall to the surrounding skin. By using the cyst wall as skin, Dr. Buie avoids wasting much tissue. Average healing time is 30 days...
...piece of skin gets folded inside, making a sac, usually with one or more small openings (called sinuses). This happens to one individual...
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin...