Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most serious, third-degree burns, involving loss of all the layers, skin will not regenerate. To prevent loss of body heat and fluids until the patient is ready for grafts, the wound needs temporary biological dressings; overhead heat shields are also used. Doctors apply either pigskin (which closely resembles human skin) or skin from cadavers. Artificial skins have not yet proved successful, and doctors are only beginning to take matching skin from siblings and parents. But M.I.T.'s Ioannis V. Yannas, together with Shriners' Dr. John F. Burke, may soon try a promising material made of polysaccharides...
...second act begins with a neat comic sketch called "Reminiscence of a Schoolmaster," who says of Thomas that "his first name was uncommon, but he was not." The show's most prolonged success, however, is Williams's rendition of the very funny "Adventures in the Skin Trade," during which his capacity for mimicry and elegant comic timing find their fullest expression...
...period from 3000 B.C. to 2000 B.C., for example, shows the Egyptians to be eons ahead of their contemporaries. The Chinese of the period dwelt in houses of mud and thatch, contem porary Britons and Scandinavians lived like troglodytes in barrows, inhabitants of the Americas made do with skin tents, flimsy huts and caves. Technologically, the cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East were even more advanced. Mesopotamians and the people of the Indus Valley could cast metals to make tools and ornaments-and keep written records. Small wonder that even centuries later, the peoples of the Middle East looked...
...superstar," instead of just another gifted black athlete. Trouble is, the script calls for him to pronounce Charlemagne as "Charlie Magnet." Hammer must act on nationwide TV as if he cannot read. Before the dilemma is resolved, Wolfe gores a number of oxen: the power of advertising, the skin-deep status of black-white understanding, the venality of big-time professional sports. Easy targets, perhaps, but no one has better aim than Wolfe...
...nothing about the photograph invites one to read it as a narrative of emotion. The camera's rendering is exceedingly spare, fastidious in its detachment. Its formal rigor-down to the last rhyme between the wet locks and their paler shadow on the water's wrinkled skin-is intimidating. This Midwestern naiad, one realizes, is Callahan's Mona Lisa...