Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, there's just a thickening of the skin. Suddenly the gloves and shoes become hooves; a horn sprouts menacingly from the forehead. Finally, a few angry grunts...voila, a rhinoceros. Thus does Eugene Ionesco give birth to his favorite symbol of modern "bourgeois" man. When, in Rhinoceros, the creature starts multiplying into a nasty herd, you have the beginning of an ugly, conformist and "sloganized" society that has become the playwright's chief target for over two decades of political and theatrical writing...
Jones said "Everyone in the family complains of fatigue and aching joints. Some of them have haddiarrhea, some had a skin rash...
...dopa is the starting material for the synthesis of melanin, a pigment commonly found in skin cells affected by melanoma, a form of skin cancer. In the brain cells affected by neuroblastoma, another form of cancer, L-dopa serves as a starting material for the manufacture of norepinephrine, a chemical signal in the nervous system...
Nerve cells and skin pigment cells are the only cells in the body known to use L-dopa...
Wick decided to "choke the cell" with an overdose of L-dopa--taking what he called "sort of an educated guess," Wick said he believed L-dopa was likely to act only on the nerve and skin pigment cells, and thought it was probably non-toxic to other cells in the body...