Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...married. Enid Ferris is one of those primly efficient young matrons who know how to place-kick an indulgent husband over the goal posts of a cash culture to make a social score. But Enid is all take and no give. Frigidly squeamish about the claims of the flesh, she chills Ferris' love-making with protests like: "Don't! Where did you learn such a filthy trick?" After two children, they take to twin beds and an expurgated marital life...
Pained, Mauriac wrote an essay in self-defense. "Christianity," he complained, "makes no allowance for the flesh; it abolishes it." The Desert of Love, written in 1925 and one of eight of his novels (total: 15) published in the U.S., reflects the disturbed Mauriac of those days...
...fleshy Nero, are finally thrown into the arena where they organize the gladiators for a rousing game of American-style football. Sample scene: Nero's seductive wife Poppaea (played by Italy's top pin-up girl Silvana Pampanini) lolling in a vast Roman bath, clad in a flesh-colored bathing suit...
...stories, You Could Look It Up (how a big-league ball club won a pennant by-sending a midget in to bat) and The Unicorn in the Garden (how a woman tried to have her husband sent to the booby hatch and was instead committed herself); 2) dramatizations, using flesh & blood actors, of four of the "Mr. & Mrs. Monroe" stories, dealing with marriage perplexities; 3) another animated lecture, urging the superiority of dogs to humans and including that celebrated cartoon sequence, The Bloodhound and the Bug; 4) a live dramatization of The Whippoorwill, one of Thurber's narrative ventures...
This Solid Flesh. In Hutchinson, Kans., firemen & cops ended their search for Ben Stofer's body in the Arkansas River after they spotted him watching operations with the other spectators...