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...real life. Like El Greco, Modigliani liked to stretch people out of human proportion. He graced Madame Hebuterne with the neck and shoulders of a swan. The small, vacant eyes and ski-run nose looked less than human, gave her face the blank, melancholy look of an African mask...
Flying weather was bad, but the young ex-sailor was enjoying the ride. His oxygen mask seemed to give him no trouble at all. But at 16,000 feet, he suddenly began to sweat and turned blue in the face. Rushed back to the field and thence to a hospital, he died within 28 hours...
Other notable items: a delicately carved jade burial mask designed to fit over a mummy's face; a breastplate with three leaping, snarling jaguars; a gold flute on which two baby lizards crawled; a toothpick-size silver spoon with a tiny monkey perched on the handle-designed to scoop wax out of a Peruvian aristocrat's ears...
...danced in the streets, shouting, "Enver Hoxha, Enver Hoxha." The counting would not be completed for several days. But they knew that their future was in the hands of this 37-year-old leader who had learned French as an Albanian diplomat in Belgium, ran a flower shop to mask his activities against King Zog, led the guerrillas against the Italians and Germans...
...staphylococcus infections (e.g., carbuncles, blood-poisoning), gonorrhea, syphilis, yaws, anthrax, some forms of gas gangrene, certain heart infections. But doctors warn that penicillin may cause a temporary rise in venereal disease since: 1) treatment looks so easy that prevention is relaxed; 2) quick penicillin treatment for gonorrhea may mask early symptoms of syphilis, so that a man may discover he has syphilis only after irreparable damage has been done. (Treatment for syphilis requires at least 20 times as much penicillin as for gonorrhea...