Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gnostic contempt for creation-the exact opposite of the Christian belief that the Creator-hence creation-is good, though flawed by man's disobedient self-will-is clear in this passage: If the flesh has come into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel; but if the spirit has come into existence because of the body, it is a marvel of marvels. But I marvel at how this great wealth has made its home in this poverty...
...Flesh. In London, the Anglican magazine Prism urged an investigation of British-made horror movies, but mildly suggested that nudist movies cannot long tempt the faithful, because sitting through bare-skin epics "produces a tedium so oppressive that it seems impossible that they can do harm: rather, they seem to give a hint of the timelessness of hell...
...Rona Jaffe's bestselling novel (TIME. Sept. 15, 1958), tells what happens to the bright young things from college that come wriggling down to Manhattan to get in The Big Swim. They land in The Typing Pool. And from there, it is only another wriggle to The Flesh Pot. Compared with the hot buttered Manhattan of Authoress Jaffe's imagination, the Hollywood version of the big city is a sort of cautiously diluted Scotch-and-Sodom. Nevertheless, a virgin's virtue can dissolve with appalling celerity in this sinister mixture...
...just for swinging a sword, sitting on a horse and yelling, 'Charge!' "), and riotously squandered it as it came. The greatest concession he made to convention was to marry three times, and each union went out the window along with his roving eye. His taste for young flesh led to three statutory rape scandals, plus a juicy paternity suit-but the older he got, the more he seemed a cardboard sinner. Finally a bloated travesty of his younger self, he was typecast in his last three films as a drunk, and his forthcoming autobiography is called My Wicked...
...season. The idea was obviously to present a sort of world series of sex, but what happened to the sex? When these two magnificent objects go into a clinch, aglow from the sun lamp and agleam with hair lacquer, they look less like creatures of flesh and blood than a couple of 1960 Cadillacs that just happen to be parked in a suggestive position...