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Word: tattoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ultimately, a spectator at the trial announces that Goldman is really a Jew [the telltale SS tattoo in his armpit urns out to be a self-inflicted cigar burn). This denouement makes the playwright seem like a bumbling amateur and the Israeli secret agents as incredibly inept. Goldman, it appears, was a kind of Christ-surrogate who wanted to be martyred so that his people might feel that some fitting atonement had been made for the monstrous wrongs done them. But Shaw's conception of martyrdom makes it seem less a matter of conscience that an attention-getting device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Act of Atonement | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

ALEXANDRIA, MINN., Theatre L'Homme Dieu revives Tennessee Williams' drama, The Rose Tattoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Straw Hat | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

Rubs out the old tattoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 1968 | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...with the aid of air and artillery, caught and killed 129 of the Communists south of the city. U.S. Marine and ARVN troopers, sweeping northeast of the DMZ Marine supply base of Dong Ha, found a battalion of the enemy and killed 164. The Communists kept up their deadly tattoo of rocket and mortar attacks on allied bases and towns, inflicting "moderate" damage on the Danang airstrip in one attack and for the first time dropping shells into the center of Cam Ranh Bay, the U.S. base long considered the most impregnable bastion in Viet Nam and twice chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Period of Adjustment | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...energy in the form of heat. When it hits the colored dye particles beneath the surface of the skin, it is absorbed and converted into intense heat that instantaneously vaporizes the particles. The resulting plume of hot vapor bursts through the surface of the skin above the tattoo, charring and crusting it. In most of the 116 cases treated in the past three years at the university's laser laboratory, the seared areas of skin have healed rapidly and cleanly, leaving white, "cosmetically acceptable" scars behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plastic Surgery: Laserasing Tattoos | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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