Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...October 1963, a young rural couple took their identical twin boys to a physician to be circumcised. During the first operation, performed with an electric cauterizing needle, a surge of current burned off the baby's penis. Desperate for a way to cope with this tragedy, the parents took the advice of sex experts: "Bring the baby up as a girl." The experiment has apparently succeeded. Aided by plastic surgery and reared as a daughter, the once normal baby boy has grown into a nine-year-old child who is psychologically, at least, a girl...
...Williams graduate otherwise known as "The Great Cahuna", consistently thrills those who get their kicks from the surfer act with his composition. "Little Dead Surfer Girl," while Knowlton's facility with oldie lyrics and Beach Boys numbers sets the tone for this segment of the nightly fare. John Kincheloe, twin brother of George, is a superb drummer who demonstrates his ability to carry the show with a driving solo on "Sympathy for the Devil." Cobb is the featured performer on "Honky Tonk Women," a number on which audience participation is encouraged...
RAPHAEL SOYER by Lloyd Goodrich. 349 pages. Abrams. $42.50. This is the first full-scale book about New York's painter laureate of the lonely crowd, Raphael Soyer (twin brother of Moses Soyer, another figurative artist). Raphael was an honest and compassionate observer of human gesture. But the reproductions of his paintings here are often given the kind of gala centerfold treatment that might embarrass Michelangelo. Moreover, Lloyd Goodrich's prose commentary unfurls like a bolt of wet wool...
...part, Peronism is also a personality cult-in fact, a split-personality cult-built around the twin legends of the deposed dictator and his dead second wife Eva, whom the Argentine descamisados (shirtless ones) have enshrined as a secular saint. "Perón y Evita," are an enduring political force in Argentina. Walls in Buenos Aires are plastered with fresh posters of a sleek and inspiring Evita Perón, "flag bearer of the workers...
Wild Gyrations. The satellite's twin sensing systems have already proved their worth. Last month, ERTS suffered a mysterious power surge that temporarily affected the stabilizing jets and caused wild gyrations. To protect the satellite's three RCA vidicon cameras (which make up one of the sensing systems), controllers at NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center shut the cameras down until they could locate the problem and send new instructions to the satellite's computer. Meanwhile, the other system, a multispectral scanner built by Hughes Aircraft Co., was fully able to take up the observational slack...