Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exactly a descamisada, eh?" Evita herself is not a bit abashed. She is quite likely to appear at a streetcleaners' rally dressed in a Paris frock and glittering with jewels. She is well aware that in the eyes of many a descamisado she is Cinderella in the flesh. With sound political instinct, she dresses the part...
There was never any question--Dartmouth's size paid off. The crowd loved the "scrums" (or as Colby Jr. kept calling them, "Scums") during which nine men on each side formed a tangled mass of flesh and pushed. The crowd chortled when a player fell and was kicked in the stomach. But the crowd left at halftime when the rains came. "That's a man's game," the weekender kept telling his date, "that's really a man's game." That night at the fraternity parties no one knew the final score, or, for that matter...
...goes the grand style of life. She had been, as one of the Enclosure stalwarts put it, "the only one around here worth the powder to blow her to hell." Those who survive are a sad lot: her son Christopher, a bilious minister devoted to the comforts of the flesh; her grandson Christopher Jr., a well-read neurotic who fritters himself away in hypochondria; her neighbor Moylan Stacy, an undertaker new to the Enclosure and representing the crudity of the new rich; a dilettante who sponsors opera stars for the sake of art and, sometimes, for the sake...
...dramatically, still wading out toward where it is deep enough to swim. The play pins all its laughs on how visible ghosts are, instead of how mischievous. Actually, the Gramercy Ghost is the soul of sedateness-a pure Caspar Milqueghost-a fatal error in a play where the flesh & blood set seems anything...
...Midsummer Night's Dream" has often been called a mixture of gross flesh and gossamer. Any production of this comedy has the problem of dealing with these two distinct elements, and it is a problem which the Harvard Dramatic Club only half solves...