Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agent, a size 8-10 to the designer and, to herself, landlord over priceless property. She is undernourished (a pallid cheek is a cosmetic's best background), underweight (at an average height of 5 ft. 8 in., she weighs an average 112 Ibs., so that flesh does not detract from fabric cut), and overpaid (no less than $25 an hour, as much as $120). Her working life is short-at 30 she may drop overnight from a cover on Vogue to a back page in a mail-order catalogue. Few of her breed are known by name except...
...York City stores reckoned it at 30%. Said a Salt Lake City jeweler: "If somebody abolished Christmas, I'd go out of business." All told, the nation's merchants will have rung up better than $5 billion in sales before the last tyke has crawled, all goose flesh, into bed on Christmas...
...Hope Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A comedy special on which Hope's guests include James Garner, Nancy Kwan, Danny Thomas, plus something over one long ton of All-America football flesh on the hoof...
This hardly means that Miller is merely a sensualist. The flesh is as great an illusion as any. Sought as an escape, it becomes as purposeless and mechanical as anything in modern civilization. Miller works through this point in the course of the book; underneath the chaos of episodes, his spiritual journey winds on past illusion after illusion, towards a greater value. By the end, he has attained consciousness of the value of human sympathy, which had gotten lost in the moral swamps of the early chapters...
...first thing which I saw was the pelvis of a man, and two parts of a leg. I knew that it was no place for these things." During those two furious nights in his laboratory Webster had dissected Parkman's body and cooked away most of the flesh. The few parts of the corpse Webster had not destroyed were found strewn in a blood bath about the floor of the vault...