Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rejecting the current connotations of "photographer." Antonioni defines the term as one who lives (and matures) by watching. The photographer in Blow-Up can no more join the mods and lose himself in their sterile pleasures than join the Establishment and condemn them. His camera saves him by the skin of his teeth, and at the end of the film, Antonioni leaves him on an affirmative note...
...system, which requires a cabin pressure of only 5 lbs. per sq. in., a two-gas system would have to approximate the sea-level pressure on earth-14.7 lbs. per sq. in.-to ensure that enough oxygen reached the astronauts' lungs. If a small meteorite should puncture the skin of a ship containing a nitrogen and oxygen atmosphere and cause rapid decompression, the astronauts on board would develop a painful and perhaps fatal attack of the "bends"; nitrogen dissolved in their bodies would come out of solution, forming gas bubbles in tissues...
...charred cockpit, sorting out and studying countless blobs of melted wiring, poring over the soot-coated, grey-scorched dials, tubes and toggle switches of the instrument panel. The outer surface of the capsule was blistered and blackened in places, evidence that the blaze somehow erupted through the light skin of the airtight craft. The board ordered another, partially completed Apollo spacecraft flown to Cape Kennedy from North American Aviation's plant in Downey, Calif., so that investigators could compare its components with the blackened debris scattered about the ruined craft...
...than 100, they represent another indicator of Sato's outward thrust. Stationed from Southeast Asia to East Africa, they are skilled in auto repair and agriculture, nursing and nutrition, use their spare time to teach such Japanese native skills as origami and karate. Despite their Asian eyes and skin color, the Japanese Peace Corpsmen find it as challenging to relate to underdeveloped Asia as do their round-eyed American counterparts. For all their own appetite for sashimi (raw fish) and sea urchin's eggs, they have difficulty stomaching such delicacies as Philippine balut, an embryonic duck...
...long ago, Actress Dina Merrill, 41, discovered that her delicate skin was creasing into fine wrinkles at a rate disconcerting to any professional beauty. For advice on what to do, she turned to someone who has been the envy of fashionable women for nearly 60 years: her mother, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Mamma gave her the name of a doctor whom she consults on similar matters. She may also have reminded Dina of her own prescription: a lifelong devotion to simple food, lots of exercise and plenty of rest...