Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preaches, whereon the plot of the movie is hinged. William Rose's screenplay offers humor (the girl's parents' reaction on meeting Poitier; his parents' reaction on meeting Miss Houghton), suspense (who will talk to whom in which room next?), and incisive social commentary (we are brothers under the skin). Some reviewers have been kind enough to call it a drawing-room comedy, but in reality Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is depressingly serious...
...Fitzsimons doctors paid little attention to skin and muscle wounds, covering them with only a light dressing and proceeding immediately to the job of setting the leg and putting on the cast. Within 24 hours, they had the patient on crutches and encouraged him to put as much weight on the broken leg as he could tolerate. This proved to be highly variable. "But," said Colonel Brown, "we did not push if there was pain." One thing that spurred the servicemen on was that they had to be either up and in motion, or lying down with the leg elevated...
...Ralph S. Goldsmith, associate in Medicine, was injured by the flying glass. City Hospital surgeons performed an emergency skin graft operation on Dr. Goldsmith to replace flesh torn from his scalp. Goldsmith, who was conducting the lab's experiments in endocrinology, was released Saturday...
...CHANGE OF SKIN by Carlos Fuentes. 462 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...secret of staying awake through A Change of Skin, the fifth novel by Mexico's Carlos Fuentes, is to approach it as if it were a long, pretentious art movie. It should be read passively, with a relaxed eye toward its techniques, composition, shifts in style. And there should be frequent trips to the popcorn machine. A cheerful open-mindedness is essential because, for all its gothic appurtenances, the novel is a free-swinging romp, a virtuoso performance by an urbane writer who exuberantly deploys a variety of literary tricks-and then plays tricks on the tricks...