Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inexplicably closed. One theory was that the gate attendants had deserted their posts to watch the game's climax. Rank upon rank of screaming, struggling humanity crashed against the steel until the doors burst open and the mob surged over the crushed bodies in the corridors. Strips of skin clung to the walls, and in places the corpses were six deep. The death toll at the gates alone was 200. Outside, the rioting crowd rolled on through the streets, smashing windows and burning vehicles, forcing police reinforcements to fire into their midst. Small parties of ghouls scurried around, looting...
...perky little craft built by Litton Industries with Navy funds for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. It is 22 ft. long, weighs 13 tons, and has a reasonably conventional submarine shape, but the outside hull serves only for streamlining and control. When Alvin submerges, the water enters that thin skin freely. Inside is a 7-ft. sphere with walls of high-strength steel 1.33 in. thick to protect the crew from water pressure down to 6,000 ft. Its four viewing ports permit the pilot and observer to see ahead and below, and its three steerable, battery-powered propellers...
...Subject Was Roses, by Frank D. Gilroy. It takes a quiet patience to hear a heart beat or skip a beat. It takes the gentlest of touches to put a compassionate finger on the place where people love and hurt one another, the spot where the human skin is less than skin-deep. As Who'll Save the Plowboy? suggested in 1962, and as The Subject Was Roses further confirms, Frank D. Gilroy is the sort of playwright who possesses these qualities...
YIELD? Indiana spent nine years studying art, right through a fellowship to the University of Edinburgh. Nevertheless, he believes that art should not demand head-scratching analysis. His esthetic is frankly skin-deep, but "its comprehension can be as immediate as a crucifixion." So can his emblems, during these times of integration struggles, that proclaim YIELD BROTHER. His newest work, a diptych called A Mother Is a Mother and A Father Is a Father, returns to the figure, shows a barefoot man in hat and overcoat and a disheveled, barebreasted, scarlet-coated woman, each getting out of a Model...
Hawkes Second Skin...