Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Living Room. Known to countless admirers as the Dancer, to track habitues as the Big Grey, and to a smaller group of intimates as the Big 'Orse, he is the Saturday matinee idol of several million TV viewers, many of whom have not seen a horse in the flesh since the milkman switched to a truck...
...detested formal society and despised money: often his first act on taking new office would be to cut his salary. He led scratch armies to victory all the way from Nanking to Equatorial Africa, but he never came near to winning his private battle with the world, the flesh and the devil...
...Gordon was avenged in the British manner," and Khartoum became the capital of that "pleasant fiction" entitled "the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan." Few of Gordon's works have survived like his legend-and few Britons are likely to swap this for the brave man of flesh & blood who used humbly to say: "I've been very low, old fellow. Don't be hard on me. This is a terrible country...
Flame and the Flesh (MGM) works hard at making Lana Turner into a Hollywood version of a realistic Italian actress...
...rabbis, chandeliers, brides, Christmas trees, buried treasure and, finally, corpses. At 40, Bloom exercises a control of his medium as elaborate, and theatrical, as Caravaggio's. His steady gain in dexterity is offset by a restriction of range: for a full decade now, Bloom has concentrated on dead flesh, often disemboweled and usually human...