Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chocolate cream soldier, the enlightened man who leads life "sensibly," or as Raina says at first, "with a low, shop-keeping mind," without staking itself to any lofty principle. Fifteen years of experience in war has taught Bluntschli that the most important principle is to save one's skin, and when the mortally offended Sergius ("Our romance is shattered") demands to meet him at sundown with his sabre, the Swiss submits bluntly that he will bring a machine gun. Clark plays the chocolate cream soldier competently if monotonously, as a debonair impostor. He is forever raising his eyebrows to convince...
...another as they are of the invasion. People are resigned and preparing for the worst. They seem to have forgotten what it was that fortified them all these years, if anything more than a basic trust in U.S. military strength. For Americans, it is like watching a skin transplant that didn't take disintegrating in front of them. For the South Vietnamese, it is something far worse. It is the loss of family and nation, and none of them seems to know what to do about it. It is now everyone for himself. One fears that it will become even...
...doctor and asked him to rebuild her missing breast. "I didn't want to be made into a sensational beauty," she explained. "I just wanted to be restored." Her surgeon was able to do just that. In two separate operations, he implanted a silicone-filled sac under the skin where the breast had been removed, then reduced the size of the other breast to make it more nearly resemble the new one. The result is not a duplication of Mrs. Dawson's pre-1970 figure, but she is delighted nevertheless. Says she: "I can finally look at myself...
Paint, in Bacon's hands, acquires a strict and intimidating richness. Working in fast oval loops of the brush, he can give the skin of his nudes a kind of granular density, a thickness of imagined substance, that is quite old-masterly. The flesh is loose, but it is all structure too; and when the form beneath it slides away, obliterated by a wipe of the rag, Bacon can instantly tighten the image back with one detail - an eye, a patch of spiky hair like hedgehog quills. To a degree few other painters can rival, Bacon convinces you that...
...home town, Bayonne, N.J. After 41 fights, Wepner was hardly a superstar heavyweight; he had an unspectacular 30-9-2 record and ranked eighth on Ring magazine's list. Dubbed "the Bayonne Bleeder" because of the more than 300 stitches he had accumulated in the easy-to-open skin above his eyes, Wepner was an implausible opponent for Muhammad Ali, boxing's great and jaded world heavyweight champ. But Ali wanted an easy fight as a warmup for his next major title bout; and a guarantee of $1.5 million helped him to make up his mind. Wepner signed...