Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tell me this is some sort of skin show," one student said actor Mark Prascak peeled off layer after layer of shirts. "I feel violated," said another...
Just as the skin tones of Black people range across the spectrum, so too do the colors of their irises. Two of my cousins, for example, were born with green eyes. No one would ever mistake them for anything but Black, and they are hardly unique specimens...
Many people are unaware of the fact that among a once-nomadic group of endangered East Africans called the lk (described in The Mountain People by anthropologist Colin Turnbull). dark black skin and deep-blue eyes are commonplace, as reference to color photographs in an early 1970's Smithsonian magazine will readily confirm...
Most horror stories appeal to a collective memory of childhood, the sense of being small and vulnerable in a world filled with large, mysterious beings. Portrayals of innocence or helplessness stalked by danger produce responses that are largely involuntary and hence all but fail-safe: a reader's skin crawls, a moviegoer looks away from the screen or screams. One variation on this formula is its mirror opposite: an evil child is born into an unsuspecting, defenseless society. This situation crops up in folk literature, with tales of changelings or of sleeping women seduced and impregnated by incubi, and occasionally...
...enemies. Consider the case of Patrick Monfiston, 20, who last Christmas Eve was found "badly burned" in a motel room in the northeast sector. "They put him in a bathtub and turned on scalding water," says an agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. "As his skin was peeling off, they took turns urinating...