Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most predictable way possible, not with a bang but with a whimper. Sylvia Kristel as Emmanuelle is tall and leggy but her only notion of acting seems to be to widen her eyes. As in the most hard-core pornography, a threadbare plot exists only to bring on more skin and to make the idea of watching people make love for two hours seem continually purposeful and slightly less absurd...
...there is a large, well-heeled audience out there that loves pornography, is too fastidious to seek out the crass version in the Combat Zone, and will pay through the teeth to have it served up with a veneer of class. For this reason Emmanuelle isn't just a skin flick, but has been made into a film with towering pretensions to philosophical and artistic merit. These conceits make the film ridiculous where it might otherwise have been a little boring, but nice to look...
...Kerr's demonstrations is called "Save the Green," a simple technique in which two different dishes can be made from one bunch of broccoli. Another shows a workable method of skinning tomatoes, which he adds to a "simple white sauce for a fish filet, making an economical and nutritious dish." For kitchen weepers, he presents a way of cutting onions without expending a tear. Some forthcoming Graham goodies include a curdle cure for hollandaise and a technique for cutting hamburger shrinkage by folding an ice cube frozen with soy sauce into the middle of a patty. Other Kerr culinary...
...keyed to concert pitch, nothing can escape you, you are intensely self, conscious. You have utter and absolute control over all your nerves. You go right on lying there in his arms letting what must have gone rigid inside you with his words go rigid away inside your skin, so his arms can't sense the difference, can't feel the animal flinch that maybe after all you couldn't avoid...
...make reinstallation easy, silicone plugs were inserted in the openings of the tubes; a flap of skin was closed over the ends. Litwak's first patient and four subsequent ones are now home recovering from their operations, their hearts working at full capacity. Furthermore, they may be better protected than most heart patients against a relapse. If their hearts need some help in the future, all Litwak should have to do is make a simple skin incision and reconnect the pump. The plumbing is still in place...