Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dave Weyer neglected nothing. He found not three shot patterns, but four: one in the bathroom doorjamb and the bathroom itself, a second in the living-room ceiling, a third in the couch, the fourth in the pine-paneled hall. Then a defense pathologist discovered bits of flesh on the ceiling, found fragments of Violet's jacket in the gaping hole in the couch. If Violet shot her husband-as she insisted-when he was on the couch, how account for the human tissue on the ceiling and Violet's jacket threads in the couch...
...directions of the four shots, compared firings from the shotgun. Two months later he presented his findings: Marion Sill had fired three times at Violet, then reloaded the gun; the fourth shot, which entered Sill's neck from a perpendicular angle, was the one that splattered his flesh on the ceiling, the one that Violet triggered from the floor. Furthermore, Expert MacDonald pointed out that the shots fired at Violet were aimed from at least 15 inches away; the gun barrel was 28 inches long. Conclusion : she could not have shot herself...
Whether characters who are full-fashioned in pen and ink can ever do as well in flesh and blood may well be doubted. But it is less the characters than the characteristics of comic-strip life that make for trouble on Broadway. Plainly the chopped-up repetitions, the churning status quo that go down fine a spoonful a day in a newspaper could sadly pall as an evening-long drink on the stage. On the stage, accordingly, Li'l Abner has been swamped with plot, which not only palls but plods. Also, by never letting anyone relax, the plot...
...heartening sign of a religious revival, believe that movies can make the stories and sometimes even the spirit of the Bible come alive for otherwise indifferent millions. Other churchmen are appalled to find Scripture reduced to sex and circuses, to see spiritual messages clothed in the well-publicized flesh of Hollywood stars, regard the whole trend as part of a vulgarization of religion. This week the biggest religious movie ever. Cecil B. De-Mille's The Ten Commandments (TIME, Nov. 12). opened across the U.S.-and the clergy seemed to be applauding...
...Length of immersion: more than one year, because the flesh had undergone saponification, i.e., turned soft and soaplike, a process that takes twelve to 18 months...