Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mask stuffed with newspapers headlined The Menace of Fascism. Another was an enameled phonograph with an old-fashioned horn from which a manikin's legs protruded at one end, at the other a plaster hand stretched over a revolving disc shaped to suggest the curve of flesh. In the dim light there was an optical illusion of the hand approaching but never quite reaching the flesh-curve of the disc. Title: Jamais...
...asked if he had anything to say. Said he: "Nothing in particular except that Mr. Dubinsky. whom I esteem highly, seems to be giving an imitation of Eliza crossing the ice and looking backward like Lot's wife. I think he ought to finally decide whether he is flesh or fowl or good red herring...
...Grand Guignol giggles with which swank Parisians responded to it. Contributors of the 48 paintings included Picasso, with his nightmarish Dreams & Lies of Franco (TIME, Dec. 27); Salvador Dali, with The Specter of Sex Appeal, in which a nai've little boy regards an enormous figure, half-flesh, half-bone, straddling an idyllic background; Andre Masson, with Dilettantes of Corpses, showing gowned ecclesiastics leaving a corpsy battlefield with expressions of pious approval; Frans Masereel, with News event, a horror panorama of agonized soldiers, screaming mobs and weeping women, and in the lower right-hand corner a well-dressed citizen...
...blood-stained, professorial axe of mid-year examinations slowly descends nearer and nearer to the tender, bared flesh of the undergraduate neck, student red-corpuscle-pressure mounts steadily higher, and a kind of feverish anxiety speeds up the ordinarily sluggish tempo of daily life. Under these circumstances, time becomes an all-important and vital factor; the primary object of the day's curriculum is to employ every minute, even every second, on the well high insurmountable task of cramming all those important, little bits of academic wisdom into the old cranium. As the undergraduate hastily slips into the dining hall...
When the graft attaches itself to Clara, Dr. Moran will sever the tube of skin from John's hip, swing the tube across Clara's abdomen, and fix the end in her flesh. When that operation heals, Dr. Moran will perform the final stage of the graft. He will slit the sausage-like tube from end to end, spread it flat upon the girl's abdomen to attach itself soundly...