Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pacifying the restive animal with lumps of sugar. But for his new job he needed more equanimity than ever. Bat caves are chambers of horror. Their floors are deep in stinking guano and littered with the skulls and bones of long-dead bats. Over this repulsive carpet crawl fierce, flesh-eating dermestid beetles and their larvae-so numerous that the floor seems alive. When a sick or senile bat falls from the ceiling, the beetles crowd to devour it. The walls are thick with mites, ticks and other bat parasites. The air of the cave is foul with the unpleasant...
...Sand Castle. In a charming but not cloyingly sweet story, a little boy builds a castle of sand so stunning that it merits inclusion in Sir Bannister Fletcher's History of Architecture, while the camera roams in satiric asides among the flesh castles strewn on the beach...
...noise, sensation and repetition which he liked himself." The Hearst-papers, Swanberg argues, "were not newspapers at all. They were printed entertainment and excitement-the equivalent in newsprint of bombs exploding, bands blaring, firecrackers popping, victims screaming, flags waving, houris dancing, and smoke rising from the singed flesh of executed criminals...
...perennial thorn in the flesh of high-church U.S. Episcopalians is the official name of their denomination: the Protes tant Episcopal Church. It is bad enough, they feel, that Roman Catholics so often get away with calling themselves plain Catholics, although anyone who says the Apostles' Creed identifies himself as a member of the Holy Catholic Church.* But to carry the label Protestant, which goes back more to Martin Luther than to the fuss with Henry VIII, seems to them unjustly imprecise...
...Sand Castle. In a charming but not cloyingly sweet story, a little boy builds a castle of sand so stunning that it merits inclusion in Sir Bannister Fletcher's History of Architecture, while the camera roams in satiric asides among the flesh castles strewn on the beach...