Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later on it occurs to us that we're going to die unless we behave." Realizing that "my streak of self- destructiveness had to end," McGuane quit drinking and poured himself into writing. Two novels -- Nobody's Angel (1982) and Something to Be Desired (1985) -- were followed by To Skin a Cat (1986), a well-received collection of short stories that helped put McGuane back on the literary track...
Something is wrong in Culver City, and Wheeler (Richard Nash) must fix it. This situation for Wheeler is critical because he has developed flesh-consuming skin condition. The city is literally "eating [him] alive...
...Black junior at Harvard. I have been within these Ivy walls for over two years now and during that time I have been repeatedly judged by my skin color and not by my character. These judgments have come in the form of racial incidents, the last and most virulent of which occured last week. I had left one of my disks in the computer room of my house about a month ago. I was distressed over my loss since the disk contained many important files including my resume, cover letters to different employers and various letters to scholarship sponsors...
That may be so. But it reveals the flaw that whoever voices "the public concern" in America risks allowing problems to fester as long as they remain covered beneath a skin of civility...
...wishbone. Thou shalt be cast unto the deepest pit of the abyss. And there shall rise a foul beast, a beast of the sorrowful appellation, "Benno." And in the seventh fire of the seventh hell shalt thou be tormented by the unrepentant spirit of Brian Dowling. And your skin shall be as pigskin, and your heart pierced by the spikes of vengeful Harvard guard Doug Rosenberry...