Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pressing the flesh with small businessmen and middle-level party workers does not come easily to the high-powered Connally. He usually arranges to keep his visits short, even if that requires chartering a jet back to Houston following a late-evening speech. Sometimes, though, there is just no way. Last week after an appearance in Grand Rapids, Connally plaintively asked an aide: "We've definitely got to stay here tonight, haven't we?" The answer...
...Guccione magazine, of course, is worth nothing without exposed flesh, and Viva has that. In a 15-page color spread about a promiscuous picnic in Old England, the softly lit photos show total female nudity but, surprisingly, the man is as carefully shielded as Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris. A 14-page beefcake act by a ruggedly handsome young boxer is beautifully done, but is marred by self-conscious cropping of poses in the locker room and shower...
...Flesh and Blood. On one level, Aaron's reach for the record is a consummate professional's personal quest for immortality. For years he was underrated, and that still rankles. "I've always read Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Roger Maris−then Hank Aaron. I've worked awfully hard to get my name up front. I've waited for my time, and it's just now coming," he told TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman...
...pursuit of the Babe's magic number has other meanings as well. Ruth was larger than life, (see box next page) a carefree superman in a giddy era. Aaron cannot depose him no matter how many home runs he hits. But Aaron, by comparison merely a flesh-and-blood Everyman, demonstrates that a hero need not be mythic...
Then, in 1912, comes the most disputed canvas of the prewar epoch. "The first study was almost naturalistic," Duchamp remembered. "At least it showed some hunks of flesh. Right after that, though, I started in to make a painting on the same subject that was a long way from being naturalistic." It was a way from which no traveler returned. Nude Descending a Staircase was at once the scandal and centerpiece of exhibitions from Paris to New York. The work was no mere rendering of cubist theory. It was mechanistic, sensual and impudent. It held nothing sacred−not even...