Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian-born laborer, Tozzi, 37, was introduced to music at home on a phonograph stacked with Caruso and Tetrazzini records and with contemporary pop hits (one favorite: "It ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones"). Although he took voice lessons, he majored in biology at Chicago's DePaul University. But jobs were scarce when Tozzi got out of the Army in 1945, and he took to singing wherever he could-in the WGN Theater of the Air chorus, with Skitch Henderson and his orchestra at a local nightclub, at local...
...with his compulsive standards. His compulsion may drive him to excessive washing of his body, of clothes, and even doorknobs. (One legendary American tycoon would not shake hands or touch a doorknob unless he had on white cotton gloves.) He gets to the point where he actually washes the skin off his hands and has to go into a hospital...
...infra-red camera taking a picture of the other side of the wall will later pick out the imprint of the hand. The temperature of the moon can be easily measured. Scientists are experimenting to see if infra-red can detect the presence of cancer by changes in skin temperature. Although infra-red was developed primarily for the military and to guide and track missiles, detect camouflage and take aerial photographs through fog, other uses are being found for it almost every day; e.g., it can be used to scan giant electronic computers for overheated circuits that might soon burn...
Someday, when I have enough money, I am going to have a house with a massage room, a steam room, a bar, and a bedroom big enough for two 7075. The floor will be covered with a white rug four inches thick, with a polar-bear skin near the hifi. And the bed, oh, maneroonian, the bed will be adequate for an exhibition match between the Green Bay Packers and the Los Angeles Rams...
...Garga's soul instead, and a peculiar campaign of mutual self-abasement develops. At first the audience is led to think that Shlink is simply a capitalist villain, but halfway through the play, in an intriguing reversal, Brecht makes clear that Shlink himself is a victim-one whose skin has been so toughened by life that he can no longer feel. In fact, he probably stages his battle with Garga only to see whether any sensation will return...