Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beckett's intensity maintains his little joke to its very end. It makes The Lost Ones a sort of parable driven to death among details--the rough grayness of flesh in the cylinder, the mindless exactness ruling the wanderings of its denizens. It takes a single notion and analyzes it into a whole underworld...
...office this time. The margin of his predicted win over Banker and Insurance Man Jack Daniels, 48, depends to a certain extent on personality. Domenici is a breathless, ebullient crowd pleaser, while strong, low-key Jack Daniels, in contrast, is a diffident public speaker who prefers to press the flesh with individual voters in a kind of Western one-on-one campaign. Domenici is favored, in spite of a better than 2-1 Democratic registration...
...Juan initiated him into increasingly mysterious and alarming states of "non-ordinary reality" through the systematic use of three hallucinogenic plants: peyote, Jimson weed and psilocybe mushrooms. Thus far the outcome sounds predictable: student meets guru, blows mind, drops out and fries his brain cells with the Flesh of the Gods beneath a cactus. Not so: the young anthropologist turns out to be a man of tenacious curiosity. His meeting with Don Juan now seems one of the most fortunate literary encounters since Boswell was introduced to Dr. Johnson...
There are some plays that a reviewer would rather feed than judge. Like stray kittens, they rub up against you in an imploring, hard-to-resist way and make friendly little noises. They are so thin that one yearns to put flesh on the bones of their plots, give them vitamin-rich lines to chew, and nourish their characters and situations...
Only reference to these works can flesh out the sharp edges and obvious joints of the theoretical skeleton which Foucault articulates in The Archaeology of Knowledge. From them he derives and illustrates the basis of the methodology contained in the new book while at the same time playing off against them, shifting emphasis and reshuffling concepts...