Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jacqueline, to give a grandfather to her children." A Boston matron icily charged that "Jackie has made the Gabor sisters look like ladies." A few commentators were still disproportionately distressed, like the Italian columnist for L'Espresso who painted Onassis as "this grizzled satrap, with his liver-colored skin, thick hair, fleshy nose, the wide horsy grin, who buys an island and then has it removed from all the maps to prevent the landing of castaways." It was left to Novelist Gore Vidal, no admirer of the Kennedys, to deliver the week's most understated attack...
When it leaves the ocean to swim up the rivers of the Northwest and spawn, the Pacific salmon is lithe and healthy. As little as two weeks later, it degenerates into an aged, colorless and almost lifeless fish. Its flesh wastes away, bones soften, and skin peels off. The secretion of mucous material that keeps scales healthy suddenly stops, and the fish falls prey to fungus infections. Tiny parasitic worms multiply and spread through the fish's body; some glands run wild, others cease functioning...
...doctors in Brantford, Ont., the mark was the identifying surface symptom of a rare and frightening condition called the Sturge-Weber syndrome. The stains are caused by an excessive growth of blood vessels, and those in the skin are matched by others under the scalp and on the surface of the brain. In a few weeks, or at most months, a child with such a mark develops disabling seizures and convulsions. Even if these can be controlled by drugs, the dosage must be so heavy that by the time he is ten or twelve he will be oversedated...
Sione, a native of Tonga in the South Pacific, has added a great deal of the tradition to Harvard rugby in the four years he has played. Moderately tall, but solidly built, with dark skin and thick curly hair, he has a ready smile and friendly manner. His post-game ritual, which he claims is "some sort of a Tonganese war dance," has become an eagerly anticipated feature of the Saturday morning matches. The rugby parties and pig roats he gives are notorious...
Unity is trying to change all that. Its interest rates are no different from other commercial banks but the loan policies are equitable. No one will be turned away because of the color of his skin or the place where he lives. According to Fulp, Unity grants high education loans "so the kids in this community can go to college, home improvement loans to make the houses here liveable, and business loans so small businesses can be bought by black people...