Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Temperature rising as he flashed his badge and journeyed upstairs to the press conference. It was in a small room, with little sunlight and tight around the collar. The speaker's table was engulfed by a grotesque blob of lenses and flesh and cigars and cameras and elbows and underarms. In the middle of the frantic enterprise she appeared. Like a jelly donut atop an anthill. They swarmed...
...bases in the Arctic and Antarctic, the newcomer must quickly learn the 30-30-30 Rule of Survival: when exposed to a 30-m.p.h. wind at -30° F., human flesh freezes solid in 30 seconds...
...director-general of pontifical monuments, decided to clean the Transfiguration. The results, newly unveiled in Rome, are spectacular: the familiar dirty greens of the sky have given way to a deep, dazzling blue; the dead areas of tone sparkle with lost nuances of color; and the modeling of flesh has acquired a high, suave fullness that had been submerged in the murk. What stood revealed, said Redig de Campos, was "a Raphael who, in his last work, had dared to show himself comparable to the greatest colorists of the time, that is to say, the Venetians. We have been given...
...sleep, it is the sleep which cuts deeply into the flesh...
Dancers in flesh-colored leotards, an empty stage--there is little to focus on but the symmetrical ebb and flow of movement phrases, a rhythm which underscores at every moment the steady pulse of the music. Even gestures with a mimetic quality--the measured sobs midway through and the ending gesture, tightly-clenched lists covering weeping? eyes--are built to square with the monotonous pulse...