Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avatars-also figures in symbolist painting, especially in the world of Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921), another member of Péladan's circle. Art or The Caresses conjoins a mysteriously smiling sphinx (looking not unlike a satisfied Rossetti redhead in a leopard coat that has grown onto her skin) with a puzzled-looking boy who has presumably come to answer her riddle. It is painted with a high, pale elegance that altogether removes it from the common run of romantic-symbolist cliche...
Four weeks later she had lost 25 pounds, her skin had sunk into sallow caves in her face. After five weeks she had strength only to fix her daily grain and tea, and she had lost muscle control so she would scatter the food in spasms that shook her as she prepared...
...haphazard personal museum-a four-story potpourri drawn from history, whimsy and a driving intellect. "Mrs. Longworth operates the most interesting disorderly house in Washington," an admiring guest once noted. Visitors encounter thousands of stacked books, a calendar of personal engagements from 1907, a 15-ft. tiger skin that was a gift from the Dowager Empress of China, a drawing of a Chinese tiger (she calls the beast "Dean Acheson" and notes, "He loved it when I said it looked like him"), an African voodoo mask slipped over the head of a replica of the Statue of Liberty...
FitzGerald became dissatisfied with the role prescribed for her. She was like all of us in one way: confined by her white skin and "round eyes" to certain areas at certain times of day. All Americans found out quickly that going after the truth about Vietnam was the hardest thing...
...corpse of the boy who cried wolf were just found amidst self-righteous moralmongering. The novel's appearance is more triumphant, as if the boy, after playing his little joke once too often, were to return home one day bruised and bloody with the dead wolf's skin slung over his shoulder. Nickel Mountain has just that simple tone of life-enhancing experience...