Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watery brown eyes stare out from sockets sunk into folds of flaccid flesh. Thin purple veins straggle across the high cheekbones, so close to the surface that they almost seem etched on the first layer of skin. The second chin sags into a second throat. Black dye has been used on the swept-back hair, but the cosmetic is not enough. Juan Domingo Perón, almost 78, looks his age -and feels it. He tires easily; he has trouble concentrating. Yet he must try to marshal his failing faculties. Nearly two decades after he was run out of Argentina...
...cycle; life coming out of death." The resulting pictures, done between 1968 and 1972, are among the solidest and least theatrical of Wyeth's work. They are also-to the extent that it is possible with naked flesh-puritanical pictures, chill in their contrasts of skin pallor and gloom, of skin against the resistant textures of grit, wood and opaque brown foliage. There is an edge of contrivance: Black Water, 1972, is much posed, and the profile of the body against its dark background is a trifle obvious as a metaphor of hills and undulant landscape...
...wonder then that Matucci feels badly used by his superiors. His most entertaining manipulator is the Salamander himself-an old, immensely rich fairy Godfather. Like the legendary salamander who lives in flame, he has survived the fires of illegitimacy and Mussolini's Fascism with his lizard's skin unscathed. The Salamander does for West's story what the wolf does for the tale of Red Riding Hood. As a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, The Salamander will be widely sold, but it reads like a mere shadow between West's conception and the inevitable movie...
...sudden, Mary's spine fills with pus and she bleeds into her skin and her brain. "You son of a bitch!" shouts her father. "Haven't you tortured her enough?" He goes berserk and tries to slug every doctor in sight. The resident gives the girl special emergency treatments, including a respirator. Prader, the hematologist, now, unexpectedly, opposes the resident. "Don't you think it's time to stop being heroic?" he asks. "Don't you think enough is ever enough?" Says the resident: "There is no reason not to use everything we have...
...sweet 'n innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up all preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody--the old Hollywood style Western hero has become the outcast; on the run, a wanted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martyr's glory--at this point the movie gets boring--he makes fools...