Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bath in the last week. And he tries to light a joint; fourth time defeats the wind and the drizzle. The match illuminates thin, brittle wrists, hollow brown face, crows-feet that are a mockery on this head with eyes that could be 15 or 50, skin drawn tight, and always he's hearing noises that aren't there, following shadows, running scared even when he's sitting down...
...WINTRY AFTERNOON 500 years B.C., the wounded shivered, winced, lips encrusted with black blood shuddered as the rain streaked graying skin filmed with red dust. Wind and water noises mingled with the swift shufflings of looters, moving away from one fallen from to another, muffled in dark woollen cloaks that flapped predatory as the ravens circled lower over the battlefield...
...heart and lungs. The most conscientious exercises, careful diet and cautious life-style cannot halt the gradual hardening of the arteries, or prevent the reduced output of critical hormones, or bring a cessation to the wholesale death of brain cells. Such holding actions as face-lifts and skin treatments are ultimately futile. They do not stop the stiffening of tissue that causes wrinkling; they only disguise...
...there is such variability in the human condition that it is scientifically impossible to select a single year as the turning point, even for small groups of people. As Author-Physician Leopold Bellak points out: "Some people who are chronologically 80 are biologically only 60. Their bones, eyes, ears, skin-even reflexes and blood pressure -may be those one expects in a 60-year-old." Complicating matters is the fact that physiological aging varies not only from person to person but within the individual as well. Eyesight may fail while hearing remains acute. Says Psychiatrist Robert N. Butler, director...
...then as a sort of itinerant medic in the northern countries of the continent. What he saw made him angry, and soon he left for Guatemala, to join in the revolution there. It was soon put down by CIA-backed counter-revolutionaries, and Che would barely escape with his skin, to Mexico. His awareness now awakened, the young physician studied political theory there, and met a man named Fidel Castro...