Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artists have survived to the present day, all trying--probably in vain--to match the caliber of Houdini. One such artists is Ron Fable, a 35-year-old performer from Milwaukee, who works at fairs and public gatherings in the Midwest. Fable specializes in strait-jacket escapes, using a skin tight jacket that is particularly difficult to master. Like Houdini, he hangs from a crane or flagpole while making his escape...
...feat in winter, and a sheet of 16-in. thick ice has formed on the lake. Undaunted, Sommers cut a hole in the ice and went ahead anyway. "I just ate Cream of Wheat beforehand, and took some extra precautions," he relates. The feat caught the eyes of several skin diving magazines, who noted that it was the first time anyone has swum under ice without scuba gear. (Historians now dispute the legend that Houdini pulled the same stunt in 1906. Sommers is obviously not eager to repeat the feat...
...clung to it when it was first seen. Instead it has moved into the company of, say, Pollock's Lavender Mist as one of the classics of American modernism: a work of such authority, intelligence and opulent technical skill that one can hardly believe its pale, dense encaustic skin was made by a 25-year...
...Somalis, a proud, clannish people whose skin is black and whose heritage is Arab, regard the Ethiopians as the most persistent of a long line of colonizers that has also included the Egyptians, British and Italians. Over evening fires, the Somalis often recount the exploits of the revered Ahmed Gurey, perhaps the first of the Somali freedom fighters; he attacked Ethiopians in the Ogaden in the 16th century...
Colvin: We do. We do not believe that intelligence, that achievement, that ability are measured by skin pigmentation...