Word: bod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Touch. Got a firm bod? A squishy one? A squishy one that used to be firm? Does it hurt when you press anywhere? What parts of you jiggle? Where are your muscles clearly defined, where do your bones jut out? Is your skin rough, smooth, oily? Your hair wiry, downy, springy? Does your nose have a lump on it, what does your nose feel like to you? Mine feels like a piece of driftwood, hard but sanded smooth...
With regard to nakedness, Willa Kim's costumes may be the next better thing. They seem to seduce the bodies to which they so suggestively cling. Jules Fisher's lighting, like the hand of a master painter, seems to turn those same bod ies into efflorescent still lifes even when they are in dynamic motion...
...public favor with predictable but amusing regularity. Condon's style, which has seemed preachy and sodden in recent years, achieves some of the snap and malice that enlivened such earlier works as The Oldest Confession and The Manchurian Candidate. Caroline, he writes, "tends to overdress except at the bod ices, which are cut so low, the gossip goes, that one can see the top of Sir Sid ney Smith's head." Or, with more subtlety: "She sets her own fashions in dress and, in consequence, introduces the smirk to British society...
Another complaint, Bod said, is that courses are not relevant. "The answer cannot lie with familiarizing students with particular problems," he said...
...spread from UNESCO to other U.N. bodies, such as the Geneva-based World Health Organization and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. It is the Third World that most needs the U.N. and its humanitarian agencies. To the extent that bloc politics hamper the working of these bod ies, it is the Third World that will pay the price of ideology...