Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision has been made. I'm shaking off the old skin and I'll leave it here in the hole...Perhaps that's my greatest social crime, I've overstayed my hibernation...
Cleaver took another sip of his wine and waited. He turned his head slowly. His face is striking mostly for its rich color and almost pliable quality of skin. At 39, he still seems to have a baby face. His eyes are distinctive in their brownness and almost quivering sensitivity. He has the thinnest eyebrows, and a thin moustache...
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...invites a pose, and his subjects each treat his excellent camera man. William Brayne in a different way, depending it seems on the way they view what the camera means. A middle-aged woman waiting in a seat, a platinum blond with hair teased into a mountainous bundle and skin with wrinkles still dimly perceptible under heavy makeup turns her head to the side and looks up, apparently proud of her looks. The face itself is unattractive, but the pride, and the disdain with which the woman treats the camera seem to open up an entirely different dimension--that...
THERE'S A LOT of humor on this album, a humor closer to the playful spirit of John Wesley Harding than the cruel mockery of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" ("You may think he loves you for your money/But I know what he really loves you for/It's your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat") from Blonde on Blonde. Irreverence ("Gonna save my money/And rip it up"), ribald allusions ("That big dumb blonde with her wheel gorged") and word play ("One must always flush out one's house/If he doesn't expect to be housing flushes") combine to create...