Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contemplate what Yeats seriously believed in is enough to stagger the modern reader. He had, or vowed he had, complete faith in ghosts, fairies, magic, table rapping and spiritualism. He attended seances religiously, and once claimed to have seen a man in black and a hunchbacked woman fashion human flesh out of mysterious chemicals. At another séance, at which the spirits became very annoyed, witnesses reported that "Willie Yeats was banging his head on the table as though he had a fit, muttering to himself." Yeats sometimes primed the medium via telepathy, but he doubtless was not amused...
...long way to go toward city approval and financing. But says Gruen: "It's not just a big housing project, it's the first 20th century city. We would really integrate housing with other facilities, avoiding the intermingling of transportation. It would mean unscrambling the melee of flesh and machine...
...call her, hooks up. Brother George was long ago spliced to Mercedes McCambridge, a twisted, Bible-quoting shrike, but their platonic trailer-camp marriage is as punishing as purgatory. So those "illustrated sermons," in which Salome dances (not as her Biblical namesake but as Delilah of the "soft, yielding flesh and evil painted face"), give Preacher Hamilton the torments. Finally, Sister Mercedes, who cannot help noticing, has a conniption...
While his paintings had been all angles -"A cubistic mother feeding a geometric baby out of a trigonometric bottle," one critic sneered-his sculptures have always been round and soft as flesh. Occasionally he turns out a Biblical head that is as fierce and formidable as the Old Testament itself, but his favorite subjects have always been the living creatures around him. There are cats and dogs, embracing lovers, naked children and young madonnas; they emerge out of their prison blocks of stone and wood as naturally as if they had been there all along just waiting to be rescued...
...outmaneuvered the Oahu Sugar Co. for 230 acres that it desperately wanted on the venerable Mark Robinson estate. The land controlled the irrigation track into the sugar company's fields, also the roads over which its cane-hauling trucks had to move. Ho extracted only an ounce of flesh when Oahu Sugar came to him after it had been outbid. "I could really have been tough on them," he says. "I could have sold for a $500,000 profit instead of only $150,000. But they'd never speak to me again, and this is a small town...