Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four dermatologists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) announced yesterday a radical new treatment for psoriasis, a genetic skin disease that affects 8 million persons in this country, and an estimated 75 million world-wide...
...audience's patience. Furthermore, the two-part format of the concert allowed the audience to have its cake and eat, too. The first part, which lasted close to an hour, consisted of a well-chosen selection of former hits including such favorites as "You Really Got Me," "Celluloid Heroes," "Skin and Bones," "Here Comes Yet Another Day," and "Waterloo Sunset." When Ray Davies wasn't flopping around like a marionette with rubber bands instead of strings for support, he was either pinching brother and lead guitarist Dave Davies or exercising his mesmerizing ability on the audience...
...This," declared Master Chef Danny Kaye, "is Empress Chicken with Devoted Eunuch Vegetables." His audience, ten Bay Area gourmets who had enlisted for a cordon crêpe de Chine course at Mme. Cecilia Chiang's restaurant, The Mandarin, was suitably impressed, gasping as a duck skin was brutally inflated with a bike pump to demonstrate how to make Peking duck. Kaye started coming to class last year; then, when his old friend Mme. Chiang (no kin to Mme. Chiang Kaishek) fell ill, he stepped in as instructor. Danny still makes the weekly trip from his Beverly Hills home...
...cause ugly eruptions and of ten leaves scars on the face. Oral antibiotics have been used to control the condition, but Dr. Albert M. Kligman and his colleagues at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania have been looking for an antibiotic that could be applied directly to the skin to deal with acne pustules. In tests, they treated 80 youngsters with moderate acne with four widely used antibiotics, applying the medications twice daily for eight weeks and counting the number of lesions at the end of each month. Three of the drugs-chloramphenicol, isoniazid and tetracycline-proved of little...
This simple addition does indeed sound elementary. But what the description leaves out is Bill's acute sense of color relationships and the cool, meticulous perfection of the skin of paint-a skin that makes the epidermis of Mondrian's geometrical abstracts seem coarse by comparison. In his exquisite judgment of value and hue, Max Bill is one of the great colorists in modern...