Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facelift. That, to be sure, was nothing spectacular for the script of All My Children, one of television's soapiest midday dramas. Yet when kindly Dr. Julien removed the bandages from Margo's uplifted face before 10 million viewers this week, the postoperative black eyes and discolored skin thus exposed were in very living color. It turns out that Eileen Letchworth, fiftyish, the actress who has been Margo Flax for the past two years, had her real-life face surgically elevated earlier in the month. The show's relentless producers, recognizing a heart-rending episode when they...
Further turns in the pathways, further convolutions of the spiral. The people around you seem diminished in stature, their skin pale, their gaze distant. You stop a moment to watch as these college students eddy around you like so many ants in a hill. You are standing in front of the cabinet for Soc Sci 15 and casually pick up a text on behavioral psychology. Graphs of response rates and reinforcements and contingencies stare out at you, but your puzzlement is allayed by the almost tangible presence of laboratory walls enveloping you. A symphonic blend of pigeon cooing fills your...
...regularly covered him. The camaraderie was strained only once, when a newcomer printed a remark about Watergate that Ford considered off the record, forcing other reporters to follow suit. "After that, his relationship with us became very professional," recalls CBS's Phil Jones. "But he has a thick skin. He's proud that he has lots of adversaries in Congress but no enemies. The same goes for the press...
...pulmonary embolus; in Manhattan. A graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Apgar later became its first professor of anesthesiology and first female full professor. In 1952 she perfected the Apgar Score, an evaluation of five physical functions-heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflexes and skin color-made within the first minute of a child's life, and again five minutes later. A low score is a prompt identification of a need for special care...
...Fire Island, for instance-male homosexuals pioneered public beach nudity. Now joining them are the straights, mostly young adults and teenagers, many of whom picked up the idea on the shores of Europe. Some, who have only recently unraveled their String bathing suits, still show the untanned, telltale skin area known as "the cottontail...