Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court" heard the charges against them: "Neglect, inhuman treatment and murder" of more than 2,000 orphans. One witness, an eleven-year-old girl, shrilly testified that she had been locked up with other youngsters in a room infested with hungry rats that ate at the children's flesh. The sisters, all from the Holy Child orphanage, which for 42 years had given succor and shelter to abandoned Chinese children, were denounced by the Red judge as "vicious imperialists...
...meditate. Get on your knees and pray!" Kimbrell replied, with tears in his eyes: "Please God, make me a man from now on." He was marched to meals with other prisoners. He was asked to sit, experimentally, in the electric chair, did so, and said: "It made my flesh crawl." He was introduced to one Carl De Wolf, soon to be electrocuted for shooting a Tulsa detective. De Wolf rose to the occasion too, and said: "I was just a punk like you when I first got into trouble...
...work of art that combines the essence of himself with the essence of the place and the time he lives in, that miracle is denied him, and all he can offer in its place is his innocence, his celibacy, his immunity from the temptations of the world and the flesh...
...live in [a non-humanist] epoch, and we have the abstract artists we deserve. Like an emetic, they have purged us of a great deal of silly 19th Century sentiment; like a professor of anatomy, they have revealed the permanent, the timeless bones beneath the perishable flesh. Yet the perishable flesh, in all its ephemeral weakness, will assert itself again. The body can be purified by an emetic, but it can't be nourished...
...Last week Artist Kisling, now an energetic 60, was having his first Paris show in 15 years. To replace Kiki and his other Montparnasse models, he had called in the peasant girls from around his present-day home in Southern France. Their curves had the same healthy abundance, their flesh the same pearly hue. Interspersed among the show's buxom nudes were blossom-filled landscapes, luminous still lifes. These are strictly change of pace. "When I paint a nude," says Kisling, "I hunger to paint a landscape; when I paint a landscape, I hunger to paint a bunch...