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Conventional plastic surgery to remove tattoos takes a long time and often leaves unsightly scars. But using laser beams, a team of University of Cincinnati doctors have developed a technique that literally explodes tattoo dyes out of skin, with less pain and often less scarring...
...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...
...TATTOO THE WICKED CROSS by Floyd Sa/as. 351 pages. Grove...
...novel calculated to disgust, Tattoo the Wicked Cross succeeds in its primary objective. Its subjects are prison, prestige and pederasty, more or less in that order, and will remind readers of the works of Jean Genet (The Blacks, Miracle of the Rose), celebrant of sodomy in the bastilles of modern France...
...museum's curator, Kynaston McShine, who selected the paintings, unpretentiously bills his exhibit as an "airy, informal, summer exhibition of big, beautiful paintings." The show includes both abstract and representational art. Veteran Abstractionist Gene Davis sets the eye dancing in Phantom Tattoo with a 10-ft. by 19-ft. cascade of multicolored awning stripes. Ellsworth Kelly does three giant, economy-size rectangles of flat color (one each of red, yellow and blue) covering 89 sq. ft. Alfred Jensen's four-paneled impasto consists of dozens of big squares, little squares, houndstooth checks, checkerboards and signal flags...