Word: skins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jets in an attack squadron running raids out of Pohang. During one especially hellish run, Glenn encountered an unexpectedly heavy barrage of antiaircraft fire. A cloud of shrapnel ripped one bomb from the undercarriage of his Panther, then another. A second blast punched more than 200 holes in the skin of his plane. Glenn struggled for a few moments to keep his wounded aircraft stable and then realized the effort was futile. Keying open his microphone, he called out levelly to the squadron leader, "I'm going to ease out of here...
COURTNEY "GIMME" LOVE AGE: 33 OCCUPATION: Singer, glamorized grungess BEST PUNCH: Said it was "silly and sexist" that Billy Corgan was being given so much credit for his work on her band Hole's latest album, Celebrity Skin...
...dumps a boyfriend who is almost perfect, except for the fact that he does not like her brother. Mary also works at a program for mentally retarded adults, and one of her best friends needs to wear braces to move around. Indeed, Mary's beauty is much more than skin deep: she even lives with an elderly woman who was lonely and needed company after the death of her husband. Mary's kindness originally attracted her to the loser Ted in high school, after she saw him defending her brother from a bully in the school parking...
...shirt, shouting racist epithets to incite the crowd. I silently compared the two men, Stephen and this massive ruffian--both black, both poor, both probably with a reason to hate whites. But Stephen's eyes sparkled above his childish grin. The man's eyes had narrowed, and his skin had deep furrows from a permanent frown on his deep set jaw. And I watched the beefy, red-faced white police, armed with shields and jackboots, herding people--most particularly black people--as if they were cattle headed to slaughter...
...face is gaunt--ravaged but handsome, like a weathered statue--and the skull is nearly visible through the skin. The body is hunched; it needs a cane for support. Getting a first glimpse of Marcello Mastroianni here, the viewer is not surprised that this was the last film he completed before his death in late 1996. Was he only 72? He looks a decade older, frailer. A closeup could be like an autopsy, were it not for the actor's perennial ease and grace before the camera...