Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...draws on the ancient Greek use of the chorus and of masks. It draws on the medieval morality play. And it would have been impossible without Wilder's Our Town and, more especially, The Skin of Our Teeth. This will please Wilder, who said not long ago, "I should be very happy if, in the future, some author should feel... indebted to any work of mine. Literature has always more resembled a torch race than a furious dispute among heirs...
...play's cosmic atmosphere by suspending in the air a sort of armillary sphere fitted with small spotlights, which Tharon Musser has exploited ingeniously in her extraordinary lighting. The set, furthermore, has to be able to undergo drastic physical upheaval in mid-scene, in the tradition of Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth...
Still, Poteet has always been jealous of Steve's girl friends, is obviously in puppy love with the colonel. What is more, Caniff realized with a start last summer that Poteet was getting too big for her skin-tight blue-jean britches. Says he: "She was becoming increasingly curved in all the right places." Playing it safe, Caniff will never bring Poteet back as a wide-eyed kid in a cowboy hat. When she does reappear some time next year, Poteet will be hovering on the edge of womanhood. Cartoonist Caniff is even now pondering his next problem: Should...
...bestow. And he is a "good and loyal servant" to the God who tempts him in response to the taunts of Satan. His children die by accident, war and murder; his home and his bank are destroyed; his wife leaves him; and he is reduced ultimately to a skin sack of boils and a collection of rags...
...hand muscles of their victims to gain the skillfulness of the murdered one, the heart and liver to acquire his courage, the sexual organs to gain his power. Like the famed Aniotas or leopard men, Belgian officials say, the murderers often wore hooded, waist-long cloaks of crocodile skin that left their arms free to seize and strike. The attacks mostly took place at dawn or twilight in foggy or hazy weather, and the victims were often paralyzed by fright by the supernatural appearance of the crocodile...