Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...games pop out on the walls, making the Mona Lisa look like a sedate frump and some of Toulouse-Lautrec's old haunts seem like a meeting of mah-jongg players. Ben Johnson's voluptuaries are in the pink, Mel Ramos trots out jungle queens in tiger-skin bikinis, Marjorie Strider shows paintings that project into the 36-Dimension, and Herb Hazelton delights in garish girdles from the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. Andy Warhol's Blue Girlie (9 ft. by 6 ft.) has a room all to herself, not out of modesty but because she only comes...
...Republican, with white skin, born in Arizona and living in Florida. Martin Luther King's smuggled comments printed in your magazine will be clipped put, framed and hung on my wall. Here is a man with deep devotion to his fellow man. I commend you for your fine choice of the Man of the Year. It is a tribute to the Almighty, who made us all, black and white, in his image...
...walked unsteadily, had difficulty getting in and out of automobiles, often dozed off while talking to visitors. His voice was frail, his skin puffy and loose...
Combining a number of vector equilibriums creates a complex of alternating squares and triangles. Dividing the squares once again, he found he had a symmetrical, twenty-sided globe-shaped skin which could be constructed out of tetrahedrons-the triangle-sided pyramid shape that provides the greatest strength for the least volume (or weight). In a sphere made of such interlocked tetrahedrons, the weight load applied to any point was transmitted widely throughout the structure, producing a phenomenal strength-to-weight ratio. Bucky produced his dome by cutting a hollow sphere in half...
...Resor, 77, widow of Stanley Burnet Resor, longtime (1916-1955) president and chairman (1955-1961) of J. Walter Thompson, the nation's second biggest advertising agency (estimated 1963 billings: $450 million), herself a vice president and director for more than four decades, renowned for her sprightly copywriting ("The skin you love to touch") and pioneering use of famous name testimonials (Eleanor Roosevelt once endorsed White Owl cigars); after a long illness; in Manhattan...