Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Perse (Seamarks) was born on an islet off Guadeloupe. Edgar Mittelholzer (Shadows Move Among Them) came from British Guiana. V. S. Naipaul (A House for Mr. Biswas) grew up in Trinidad. George Lamming (In the Castle of My Skin) is a Barbadian. In the last generation, a torrent of literary talent has come surging out of the Caribbean like a Gulf Stream of the spirit. In the new generation, the stream has been strengthened by a number of remarkable young writers-among them an important lyric poet (Derek Walcott), an insightful critic (L. E. Brathwaite) and dozens of gifted...
...allied with the surrealists, until he wearied of creating what he called "these mental reconstructions." He returned to sculpting from life, paring the figure down to its bare armatures. He became the last of those School of Paris sculptors who, since Rodin, have tried to probe beneath the skin to the essence of life...
...weeks, 522 species of tiny morticians -most of them insects-arrived to join the feast. Among them, Payne identified "3 phyla, 9 classes, 31 orders, 151 families and 359 genera." By the eighth day, the only piglet parts that had not been consumed were bones, cartilage and dry skin...
MARAT/SADE shreds the nerves, flays the skin and vivisects the psyche. In a display of directorial virtuosity, Peter Brook has expanded Playwright Peter Weiss's metaphor of the world as a madhouse, and the superb Royal Shakespeare players envelop the playgoer in a disturbing, enthralling theatrical experience...
...chickweed seeds have germinated after lying dormant for more than three decades; Oriental lotus seeds, after about 1,000 years. Such long survival, despite heat, cold or even radiation, is managed by the seed when it enters anabiosis -a state of suspended animation in which its metabolism stops, its skin hardens and thickens, and its water content falls to about 10% of normal...