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Word: skins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exception was Carmine Guarino, nicknamed "the Toad." Like Silvio, Carmine had been born to poverty, but he had found escape along another road, by burying his nose in books until his eyes dimmed and his skin grew waxen with the pallor of lamplight. Carmine's studies brought him no money, but they helped make him a schoolmaster and a politician, full of respect for the ordered and privileged past and contempt for illiterate successes such as that of Silvio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Toad | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...water for a while their crews climbed in again, bailed, and sailed on or waited for a tow. In short, as the saucer man would have been fully justified in reporting to his interstellar G2, the Americans have found a big new way of getting sunburned, soaked to the skin and happily exhausted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Design for Living | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

Strange Deception. An allegorical manhunt with a postwar Italian setting, powerfully filmed by Novelist Curzio (The Skin) Malaparte (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...embarrassed bride knelt before the Gaika elders to pay homage, and was almost tumbled to the ground by an overenthusiastic camera bug. Then, draping a leopard skin about her shoulders, she picked up an assagai (spear) to fling it into the Royal Kraal gatepost-the traditional demand for admission to the Gaika tribe. The jam of whites spoiled her aim: she missed. Bridegroom Anthorpe, in a long leopard skin, gave up in disgust and returned to his dressing room. Not for another hour did Anthorpe confront his bride. At an open-air altar, flanked by the mayors of nearby cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dismembers of the Wedding | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Strange Deception. An allegorical manhunt with a postwar Italian setting, powerfully filmed by Novelist Curzio (The Skin) Malaparte (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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