Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berlin's Komische Oper last week, and there, pregnant with portents of disaster, hung a textured moon that looked like a fly's swollen eye. A shock. When John the Baptist was pulled barefoot from his cistern prison, his long matted hair hung down to his animal skin sarong. Another shock. Then came Salome with her veils and her dances, and in a spirit perfectly suggested by the jewel stuck in her navel, she treated an earnest audience to a performance of Strauss's shocker that came straight from the libido. For its new Salome under...
...Boys from Syracuse. This can't be fluff because it unreels so welleven if it has been 24 years since Abbott, Rodgers and Hart opened it on Broadway, after purloining the mistaken-identity story line from William Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. Song and skinbut no sobs, no sorrows, no sighs...
...hilt. At close to 60, she moves with supersonic speed. She doesn't walk, she strides; she doesn't talk, she broadcasts. She surrounds herself with the calculated and the outlandish, paints her Manhattan office walls adulterous red, covers the floor with simulated leopard skin, burns incense through the day. She invents cliches and talks in capital letters, whether dismissing a contender for the best-dressed ranks ("On her, EVERYTHING looks like a chandelier") or praising a swatch of material ("I ADORE that pink, it's the navy BLUE of India"), with the sort of outrageous rhetoric...
...transformed because the discriminators are a minority: the Association's membership clause proclaims, in effect, that whites are less acceptable than others, and that only an act of justification, such as becoming a citizen of an African nation, can prove the worth of a person born with white skin...
...exist; it would have to say that it had examined this form of discrimination and found it acceptable. Somehow, the authors of that policy have used the intellectual purposes of the club to justify discrimination, but valuing a person's intellectual contribution according to the color of his skin strikes at the very heart of an intellectual community...