Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boganda was the son of a witch doctor and he liked to make offhand references to the fact that his father's rites included the eating of human flesh. But Barthélémy Boganda was educated in the white man's missions and later polished in France. He rose to head one of the most primitive of France's colonies, but he emerged as a key African figure...
...second scene of the Adams House Henry IV, a good-sized lump of flesh is discovered slouching on a bench, snoring. It is the snore of authority, rich with phlegm and idiosyncrasy, and within a few minutes after it dwindles into wakefulness there is no question that things will be all right. The lump of course is Sir John Falstaff, in the considerably-augmented person of Daniel Seltzer, and the effervescent Mr. Seltzer is engaged in one of the most amazing tours de force ever perpetrated upon the risibilities of the Harvard community. He shows us an entirely fabulous creature...
...even clerks and secretaries can afford the camera safari, which provides them with a peaceful look at wildlife in the unfettered flesh and fascinating movie footage to amaze the folks back home. Nairobi's Overland Motor Co. offers a 15-day tour of game areas by car for a comparatively modest $700, including round-trip air fare from Europe. Overland, which expected about 50 tourists at most during the first three months of 1959, now expects the total to top 800 before the season is over. The animals in East Africa's national parks, secure in the protection...
...snarling tiger ("His loins," says the program, "are heavy with solitude"), an arm-flapping eagle, a scared rat ("His heart is full of holes, like a cheese"). In a later scene he encountered assorted characters, including Romeo and Venus, who stepped from a giant pearl shell in a flesh-colored leotard. At one point he joined Death in a game of cards, with Eurydice's midriff serving as table. The deafening last scene found Orpheus hanging by his heels from the flies...
...gunskinners was that they started to believe their own publicity. The legend of the West was growing almost as fast as the reality. The dime novels, with a bow to James Fenimore Cooper, had begun to give a first, rough literary form to the western story. By 1890 the "flesh-times in Kansas" were a thing of the past. Wild Bill Hickok had been tamed by Writer-Promoter Ned Buntline, and was playing in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show ("Fear not, fair maid, you are safe at last with Wild Bill, who is ever ready to risk...