Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March the two Negroes' feet were puffy, greyish-purplish clumps of gangrenous flesh and they both would now have been stone dead if a Raleigh surgeon had not amputated their four limbs halfway to the knees. In the Charlotte court house last week these stumps were Exhibits A, B, C and D in the State's case of criminal cruelty against Captain H. C. Little of the convict camp, three of his guards and Dr. C. S. McLaughlin, camp physician...
This was his greatest period of production. He did things with paint no one has done since. He developed his amazing mastery of moted light. The faces he painted expose their surfaces of flesh like faces seen in life, but they also expose their motivations, wills, characters. Anyone could decide, on the evidence of Rembrandt's pictures of this period, whether he would have lent his sitters money, married them or bet on their futures. They are for the most part resolute, weathered, resigned faces, expert at concealment, hav-ing the drama and depth of authentic human beings...
...would not eat a pound of cooked human flesh for $750,000 [TIME, May 13]? Tell these scientists, or whoever it is, they need not look further, as I will do it, providing it is the flesh of a man, white preferred. I would also like to designate the hour of the meal be evening, place, a ringside table where a good lively show is on, or the Pennsylvanians doing their best. I would also like to have the privilege of planning the rest of the menu to cat with...
...Walter Pater the expression meant, in a famed paragraph in his Renaissance, that: ''Hers is the head upon which all 'the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed...
...Sheehan, a dapper man of 50, appeared with eight pairs of lifelike, flesh tinted, before-&-after models of faces which he had repaired, and two similar pairs of hands. He displayed colored lantern slides of dozens of before-&-after faces. Lastly he ran off a colored movie* of an operation to repair a young woman's paralyzed features. The policemen grunted and whistled as they saw Dr. Sheehan inject novocaine and slice the conscious girl's head from eyebrow to ear, nick a rent at the corner of her lips. The girl's chest heaved...