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Word: bearskin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ocean obliging him to hack passageways through the ice to make way for his 882-lb. sledge. Temperatures dropping to as low as -68° F., gale-force winds and a blizzard also slowed down Uemura Though he wore modern thermal underwear, most of his clothing was Eskimo gear; bearskin trousers, sealskin mittens and fur-lined boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Journey to the Top of the World | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

This magazine is the real obscene stuff. Pictures of naked women lying on bearskin rugs with upthrust breasts may be sexist and demeaning, but pictures of women with khaki shirts opened and cartridge belts across their breasts are perverse. And the photo of a woman whose lip was cut off "with a rusty bayonet," run with an article on war in Rhodesia, belongs in a medical journal or a hysterical editorial to end all war. The mercenaries' stance is that war is grim business but somebody's got to do it, and this picture is hideous, but somebody...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Grim Business at the Newsstand | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...guess disappearing into my gorilla suit and thumping my chest has something to do with a transference of power. You really do feel pretty powerful down in there." Of course, it was not all mangoes and bananas for him. The temperature went over 100° inside his latex and bearskin outfit, and Baker sweated off 5 Ibs. every working day. Then, too he was not responsible for his own facial expressions. He had five different masks to wear, depending on Kong's basic mood in the shot. The masks could be made to change expression-but not by Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COMES KING KONG | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Asked by the court to give his address, a puzzled Job Bearskin could only an swer, "I have come from what I have survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Frozen Garden | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...crystal Baccarat table was designed for a 19th century Indian maharajah; the gilded piano was once played by Chopin. But the bearskin rugs, emperor-size bed and rhinestone-studded recreation room could belong only to Liberace, 55. Now music's oldest glitter rocker has opened his rococo Hollywood Hills mansion, complete with toothy portraits of the maestro himself, to public tours at $5.90 a pop. His share of the profits, says Lee, will help support aspiring artists like Protégé Vince Cardell, 35. Thirty-two guides have been trained by Liberace, and four gold-jacketed salesgirls staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 24, 1975 | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

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