Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course cannot know that such a thing will happen to him (since this novel is narrated before events in The Breast begin). But the reader's knowledge of the surrealistic enchantment that awaits Kepesh lends a poignancy to his struggles. Try as he may to be good, flesh will subsume him at last. At the end of his narrative, Kepesh nuzzles the good woman whom he loves to the point of boredom and worries about "my fear of transformations yet to come...
...will have to see the play to hear the ending, but suffice it to say that by the finale you'll see vaudeville as having taken on a symbolism of its own. The vaudeville format becomes a free and easy amoral metaphor depicting life as nothing but a flesh-pot carnival of the bizarre, where nearly everyone is a con man looking out for number one, and even a bit of free sympathy is hard to come by. The technique reminds one of "Cabaret", but the fast razzle-dazzle is custom-made Chicago...
...tried to be moderate and dependable," says the young American diplomat-narrator of Paul Theroux's latest fiction, "for the fact is that colorful characters-almost unbearable in the flesh -are colorful only in retrospect." For ten years now the productive Theroux has been transforming the unbearable flesh encountered during his wide travels into pleasurable pages. His eight novels include Girls at Play, Jungle Lovers and Saint Jack, whose settings and atmospheres were drawn from the author's years as a Peace Corpsman in Africa and a teacher in Malaysia...
...sardonic paean to the legend: instant fame, endless sex and the money to pay for it all. Since then the illusion of celluloid glamour has turned into the tawdry reality of a Los Angeles neighborhood of 250,000 people harassed by crime and vice, mired in the flesh and drug trades and fast fading into the sunset of American cultural history. Now Hollywood is trying to stage a comeback-a drive to revive a decayed area that still attracts 3 million tourists a year eager to see such bits of Americana as Mann's-formerly Grauman's-Chinese...
Christian tradition holds that Christ is the second Person of the Trinity, who became God in human flesh. The seven theologians consider this belief "a mythological or poetic way of expressing [Jesus'] significance for us," not literal truth. The old doctrine was formulated to express faith in Jesus within a Greco-Roman culture, the authors contend, but in modern times it just will...