Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your glances speed my heart and heat my skin...
...past, medical men have learned to preserve isolated tissues--red blood cells of skin tissue, for example--by saturating them with glycerol and freezing them solid. Upon rewarming, these tissues have been brought back to life...
Even when Tripp had triumphantly rounded out his 200 hours, his service to science was not ended. The researchers kept him awake for another hour of tests, taped leads to his head to get brain-wave readings and left them in place when, with eyes bloodshot and skin sallow, he fell asleep. During his 13-hour slumber they also ran electrocardiograms. Leary of the dangers of these stunts, Dr. West had not been able to promise Tripp that there would be no harmful effects. This week, though Tripp seemed outwardly well, he was still getting tests to make sure...
...good half of the tales in A Medicine for Melancholy are inner-directed rather than outer-space bound. The Headpiece is a typical Bradbury skin-prickler. Andrew Lemon is a middle-aged apartment dweller, thoroughly undistinguished except for the hole in his head, the result of a hammer blow from his exwife. Lemon is hopelessly in love with a pert young thing down the hall, but she is cool to him, and he blames his strange deformity. One day he knocks at her door proudly decked in a toupee. Tonelessly, the girl says, "I can still see the hole...
...passing motorist, Frank Smith, of Oxford, made an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the boys as a crowd of 3000 gathered. Metropolitan Police officers recovered one of the bodies, but the services of skin divers were required to bring up the other...