Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radiguet died. Alice found evidence that the young author had stolen a diary in which she had described many an intimate scene with her husband, and used it to give his book verisimilitude. Gaston was not convinced. Time and again, he would cite a passage from Devil in the Flesh and confront his wife with it. "No," she would cry, "it is not true! The boy was only a child." Then, for a while, her husband would believe, and the couple would find an evanescent moment of happiness-only to lose it again in a new surge of distrust...
...they lived for nearly a quarter of a century, patching a life of torment into a counterfeit of happiness. Then, after World War II, the film version of Devil in the Flesh appeared, and all the old wounds were ripped open once again. Five years later, in 1952, Alice died. "Everything they wrote about us was untrue," she whispered to her husband as death approached. "I did nothing wrong." Already old in his late 50s, his spirit corroded by doubt, his neglected son a crippled invalid in the care of strangers, Gaston gazed at his dying wife...
Seldom has a film expounded an abstract entity with such heart-wringing concreteness. Trevor Howard as Scobie is pity in the flesh; and, moreover, a spectator gets the sense that he is not one aspect of the hero in one scene, and another in another, but the whole man at every moment. Vienna-born Maria Schell, playing her third role in English, is just right as the young girl. She shows innocence, lustiness, angelic grace and moral crassness in just the proportions that might tempt a fellow of Scobie's age and situation...
...ensued, and some of Waly's followers grabbed the lighted torches. One of them stumbled. A tree flared up with a whoosh. In panic, others threw their torches away. In a moment the yard became an oil-soaked pyre. The impregnated sawdust blazed like napalm, clinging to raw flesh, burning and spreading. The crowd, roaring with fear and pain, ran from side to side in the narrow schoolyard. But there was no escape: three of the walls were 10 feet high; the only exit was a narrow gate. It was over in 20 minutes: 33 died, hundreds more were...
...earth has "boils" that form in its rocky flesh, rise toward its skin, and sometimes break through. Proper appreciation of these ailments, said Geologist C. Wroe Wolfe of Boston University last week, should lead to the discovery of valuable ore deposits...