Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Came Stalin's attempt to grab Greece, and the lovers took to the hills, where Niko raised the banner of bloody civil war. While Niko burned peasant villages and liquidated the old-line Communists who stood in his way to power, Roula, in her low-cut blouses and skin-tight riding pants, was promoted to commissar and recognized as the "Boss's Wife." Even in the hills, she was always well groomed, and in the words of one Communist deserter, "wore the only pair of nylons to be found in northern Greece...
Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories, by Dylan Thomas. A prose epitaph from the legendary poet of Laugharne, containing a fragment of a novel and 20 other tales, all as panurgent, eloquent and unpredictable as the man himself (TIME...
...heard from NBC. The network promised more than 75 Spectacular-sized shows, almost twice the number of Spectaculars (39) that it produced during the past season. Among the wonders: a repeat of last season's successful Peter Pan; a two-hour telecast of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, starring Mary Martin and Helen Hayes; a musical version of the Pulitzer Prize play Our Town, starring Frank Sinatra; a series of one-and-a-half-hour Sunday afternoon productions of Shakespeare's plays, starring Maurice Evans; a series of 90-minute original TV plays...
...tiger skin...
...Kinsey age. Even more famous, of course, was Three Weeks, a swoonmaking elixir that Elinor uncorked in 1907. Three Weeks, written in six, eventually sold some 5,000,000 copies, and featured a wildly romantic Balkan queen who greeted her lover from a reclining position on a tiger skin with a red rose between her teeth. The book was boycotted in Boston, blasted from pulpits, and celebrated in an anonymous ditty...