Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blind, and sculpture became his only means of expression. To his exhausted eyes, his models were a mere blur. To translate forms of muscles and bone, he first had to feel their original conStruction with his hands. He used calipers to measure bare knees or arms, sometimes tore living flesh by clumsy searching for clay perfection. Augmenting a keen sense of touch with the memories of his earlier, visual studies, he continued almost to the last of his 83 years to fashion his distinctively animated dancers and horses. He worked in semisecrecy, in perishable wax and clay, left the figures...
...silence on this road was prodigious. Faces were expressionless, beyond the point of suffering. They were carved blocks of puffy human flesh with holes for eyes, a red spot for a nose, two cracking flaps for a mouth. Some had rags on their feet. Those who had no rags trudged in straw sandals, the flesh of their feet peeling away in frostbitten rawness...
...connoisseurs Miliza Korjus' silvery, agile recordings of such challenging arias as the Bell Song from Lakmé and the Queen of the Night Aria from The Magic Flute had roused admiration and curiosity. But until this week, almost none of her phonographic fans had heard her in the flesh. When she walked on Carnegie Hall's stage and launched into Lucia's Mad Scene and an assortment of Mozart and Verdi fireworks, they lent attentive ears. Soprano Korjus flatted on a couple of high notes, sang a phrase or two off pitch. Her high...
...freedom all have been gathered Into the perfect union of purposes disunited- A brotherhood of men in the arms of death Who were never aware, in life, that they were brothers . . . Open these graves to discover The secret of liberty shoveled under the earth : Behind the curtain of flesh, as under the crosses, There is one Brother...
...advance publicity, and were set to saturate the nation's bookshops with 225,000 advance copies. It was a good bet that before the month was out Amber would be boiling its way into the war-bored minds and emotions of millions. And with so much bare flesh involved, dazzled readers were not likely to complain of the fact that Author Winsor never gets around to much deep thought...