Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organization now celebrated its most gruesome triumph." Against this, Brand's only weapons were bravery and bribery. The Nazis had discovered that Jews could not only be killed but bought and sold. Thus, by a cruel twist, Brand found himself a specialist in the traffic in human flesh...
...himself lingered on as a hero without a show, introducing cartoons and kiddies' space films. But since last August he has been without a regular TV job. He is a victim of TV's power to create a fictive personality that neither make-believe limbo nor enduring flesh can destroy, a historic character of TV folklore uncomfortably survived by himself. Hodge has tried in vain to get dramatic parts and commercial assignments. No director will hire him, arguing that every TV viewer instantly identifies him as the captain. (Standard greeting: "Hello there, Video, what...
Even in that warm wonderland of swamis, fly-by-night faith healers and hard-eyed Hollywood flesh peddlers, O'Malley was obviously something special. Half Irish and all gall, he is a sucker for other people's promises and a happily shameless manipulator of his own. His gravel-voiced oratory beats at the unwary with the brass of a top sergeant and the blarney of a sideshow barker. To doubt his most outrageous argument is to deal him a mortal affront. But doubters there are. For Walter is a complicated soul. When there are two ways...
Increasingly few among us can do exactly as we please and that is why movies are better than ever. Yet, flesh and blood, wandering loose through Harvard Square these days, is an oddly-shaped young man who, one gathers, finds few outward obstacles to the fulfillment of his whims and truly knows the freedom we see only on the silver screen...
Morality Play. Not that Fielding is a prude: "For the most rugged, down-to-bare-facts night life on the continent of Europe-at decent prices and under non-clip conditions, too-Hamburg wins the diamond-studded G-string by 6 bumps and 24 grinds." It is not raw flesh but raw deals that make Fielding's blood boil: "Of all the groups of surly, devious, tip-hungry ruffians we've met in our travels, the Venetian gondoliers take our personal booby prize." Fielding's Guide is fun because he writes a kind of frivolous morality play...