Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These widely advertised nonprescription products contain two familiar ingredients, benzocaine and phenylpropanolamine (PPA). Benzocaine is a local anesthetic that has long been used to soothe skin irritations and itching. Added to special chewing gums or candy, it presumably dulls the taste buds and discourages eating. PPA, a drug related to the amphetamines, has enjoyed a long history as a nasal decongestant in cold remedies. In such popular diet pills as Dexatrim, Prolamine, Spantrol and Appedrine (which also contain caffeine), manufacturers say that it depresses the brain's "appetite center" in the hypothalamus...
...They unashamedly cater to the tourists around Jackson Square, in New Orleans' French Quarter, by wearing ragtag getups and going barefoot. Karl, besides playing guitar, mandolin and trombone, laces their performances with his own political jokes and humorous songs (Ain 't No Sin to Take off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones). But all is seriousness when Shanti belts out blues or scats like Ella Fitzgerald on Satin Doll. The couple were married nine days after meeting at a crafts fair in Oregon a year and a half ago. With the coming of hot weather...
...effigies of those New York Pompeians of the '60s, the collectors Robert and Ethel Scull, she complete with sunglasses and Courrèges boots. But as a rule, Segal's figures are not identifiable. They are generalized, spectral presences, muffled in the folds of calcified gauze, their skin roughened with residual abstract-expressionist drips and clots. It hardly matters that the stooped Gerontion in Segal's Hot Dog Stand, 1978, is a cast of the sprightly museum director Martin Friedman; what does count is the peculiar tension between his dark shape and the bright white figure...
...shaved his head, shaved it absolutely bald. His short, street-stubby from was now even stubbier, looking like one of those skin-heads out on the night for some good "Pakibashing...
...start a magazine of his own, freely borrowing Esquire's formula while gambling that the courts might now be more lenient about nudity. Instead of Esky the bug-eyed lecher as a trademark, Hefner created the Bunny. Facing Playboy's runaway success but unwilling to become a "skin book," Esquire made a wobbly retreat from barbershop sexism. Soon its advertising men protested that Esquire had become too stuffy and intellectual...