Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plastic Skin. About 4% of accidents in brain arteries are episodes of bleeding from an aneurysm-a ballooned-out, weak section of an artery. Aneurysms are usually congenital in origin. When they grow large or rupture, they may cause serious brain damage or death. The mortality rate in untreated cases is about...
...problem of the Negro remained one of convincing the whites of his genuine commitment to middle class white values, in order to move successfully into the dominant American middle class life. He tried straightening his hair, and even bleaching his skin. But the guaranteed preparations didn't quite work. And so the Negro, albeit unconsciously, sought to convince the white that even if his appearance would never be white, his behavior did not conform to the stereotype of the sexually licentious, Knife-wielding darkie. In the fact of so little opportunity for mutual contact and understanding a spectacular tactic...
...freest political being in the society. Ideologically, he is in a college or university community, the one institution which takes most seriously the ethos of the society. Politically, he lives on campuses with others of identical interests. In most cases, because either of his youth or of his dark skin, he can not vote and so can neither organize via the polls not suffer the possibility of losing his vote...
...warned visitors just before curtain time, "remember that when a baby is born, its face is all wrinkled, it looks like a prune. It is red and ugly and you say, Ts that my baby? No. Never.' But six weeks later, the baby has smooth, soft skin. Six weeks from now, Camelot will be the most beautiful infant ever...
...subseqeunt studies, Schiele twists his features more than ever, further delineates the bone structure in the emaciated face and body, effects a weird but rich skin tone by combining patches of green and red, and elongates and contorts his limbs to further emphasize his agony...