Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missile-like ballistic curve that takes the plane above 97% of the earth's atmosphere. Yet even in the rarefied upper atmosphere, the surface temperature of the plane's leading edges hits 630°, enough to heat the Blackbird's titanium skin to cherry-red incandescence. An intricate system of pumps and pipelines circulates fuel near enough to the skin to absorb heat and carry it to cooler parts of the plane where it is radiated away. Even so, if the space-suited two-man crew cannot take time to cool off the craft thoroughly before...
Presidential Prank. Williams wears a beard, buffalo-skin trousers, patched epauletted shirt, leather jacket and a neckerchief. But there is a lot of the actuary left in the man. He always carries a briefcase, and his workroom wall is covered with precise flow charts that plot work in progress. There are 23 projects pending. Right now, only one of them involves television. "TV," he says, "is not a medium anyone will let you work in creatively any more. People in the networks are afraid of original ideas." He does not disdain TV, however, to plug his book...
...ever call them tattoos," warns an ex-carny roustabout (Rod Steiger) whose entire body is covered with pictures. "They're skin illustrations." The work of a sibyl (Claire Bloom) from some far distant future, the illustrations are animated auguries of tragic destiny...
Steiger is talking to a young hobo (Robert Drivas), and before the boy's astonished eyes, the skin pictures come alive and involve him in stories of the world's future and his own death...
...latest American idea has impeccable statistics. The skin stretches tight across her frame; one more inch, it seems, and she would burst like a succulent mango. Her measurements are 37-22-35; she bounces when she runs, she has legs that won't quit, and steam forms on the windows when she enters a room. Naturally, as she told TIME Correspondent Jon Larsen, she wants to be an actress. "I know the whole idea of a sex goddess wanting to be an actress is camp, but that is what I want...