Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...madness became wearying soon enough for Namo and I. Skin accustomed to the grey skies of Cambridge burns easily, and after a few successive nights the flashing lights and thumping bass of a disco make the club-hopper feel more like a soldier in the trenches at Chateau-Thierry in 1917 than a happy vacationer in Florida in the spring of 1978. After a while, the beer started to lose its tang, the rebel yells started to sound strained, and the blond, tanned 30-year-olds lounging at beachside bars started to look like desperate characters. The mirage was fading...
...Inspired by his journals, Elizabeth went back to India in hopes of finding the site of his fabled lotus garden. With the aid of a village wise man, she discovered a Mogul-style well and an octagonal pool 37 miles south of Agra. "I was jumping out of my skin," she says. Back home last week, Elizabeth proudly discussed her find: "It's as if in America we found a new Mount Vernon that Washington had built, or in England a new castle built by William the Conqueror...
...liver cancers and birth defects. The dioxin seems certain to be worse. Within a few days of the explosion, residents of the town watched their cats and dogs stagger and die. Birds literally dropped out of the air People experienced nausea and blurred vision; many developed chloracne, their skin erupting in painful, disfiguring running sores...
...national consumer, women's and black groups, the ads present women as sex objects. Worse, as racist sex objects. In the view of the protesters, the ads imply that only white women are desirable. Says Consumers Union Lawyer Luana Martilla: "The implicit message is that milk-white skin equates with health, beauty and other positive qualities." Counters the milk board's Ted Shields: "The milk-white look is in. It's the 'in' look in fashion this spring. That's all we meant." It is all a bit like crying over spilled milk...
Mike Sullivan, a senior in Eliot House, led the "skin" comeback by scoring three buckets, calling two fouls, and effectively frustrating Victor Bondi, the "shirts"' leading scorer. After the game Bondi said, "There are no winners here, only survivors...