Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cubist Fleshed. Granted this tenor of thought, it was inconceivable that Braque's kind of Cubism could ever have turned the corner into abstraction. Instead, his enterprise was to put flesh on the bones of Cubist structure, to give it the sensuousness of the world of objects, returning to the eye and hand a space which, though fictional, can be explored in real detail. "There is in na ture," he said later, "a tactile, I almost mean 'manual' space." The Mantel piece, 1922, is an example of this pro cess. At first one recognizes its elements...
...feat, considering the size of Tenor James McCracken). Horne may not so much dance as insinuate dance, and may need a gallant helping hand in order to hop on a chair at the end of her Gypsy Song, but she nonetheless succeeds in making Carmen a woman of real flesh and blood-earthy, unpredictable, infuriating, irresistible...
...most of these remain vague references, often deceptively so. For instance, the cover tells the newsstand onlooker that inside he will find "bikes, leather, Nazis, flesh bestiality," everything to satisfy the macho lusts of that man of the world...
...Paul Morphy, which discussed the paranoia that beset the American chess prodigy of the 1850s, he also moved Freud's much-debated interpretation of Oedipus onto the chessboard. Morphy, in Jones' somewhat questionable theory, had to sublimate a strong Oedipal urge to "kill the father." His own flesh-and-blood father was already dead, but Morphy had a surrogate father, Howard Staunton, the uncrowned chess champion of the world, whom he needed to kill at chess. (Unfortunately for Morphy's psyche, Staunton, in most unsportsmanlike fashion, refused to play and submit to being "killed...
...rests on too flimsy a foundation-political gimmickry rather than enduring political principle, lack of an attractive alternative candidate rather than adherence to Republican precepts. It lacks so far the kind of sustained vision or creative programs able to turn a minority party into a majority one. The flesh may be willing but the spirit is weak. Today the President may be the favorite of the schoolteacher, the auto mechanic, the Catholic father, the Jewish rabbi or -more usefully-the Jewish businessman. But tomorrow...