Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wallace, himself, in the sweaty twitching flesh, is later interviewed between campaign stops by CRIMSON reporter David Bruck. Bruck refers to the X pamphlet to affirm Wallace's probe about weren't there some for him at Harvard, too. "Yes," muses Wallace, "we've got support from students on all th' campuses...
...catch them in the act. Few actors can be more sexually insinuative in speech than Williamson, though in Hamlet's dirty, double-meaning banter with Ophelia ("country matters?") the voice is not that of a suitor out to shock but of a weary fornicator already tired of the flesh he has groped too often. As for the closet scene with Queen Gertrude, Williamson would have positively horrified the perhaps apocryphal British playgoer who said: "No gentleman would speak to his mother that...
When it is -60° F. in the midwinter wastes of the Arctic, a man must battle without cease just to keep alive. Out on the tundras of Alaska, flesh exposed to such intense cold may freeze within one minute, and mistakes are paid for by the loss of a hand or a foot. At 60 below, steel will break more easily and rubber is as brittle as glass. Standard lubricating oils solidify into a buttery mess, and gasoline must be liberally dosed with alcohol to keep motors running. Unless engines are kept .turning over, they risk a "cold soaking...
General Raval dismissed the ambushes as Huk attempts to "salvage what is left of their prestige." But a junior officer was less optimistic. "Nobody in uniform is safe in Central Luzon until the Huks get their pound of flesh," he said. "And they'll get it, sooner or later." They probably will-considering that the government has promised much and done little. Huk strength is still estimated at around 300 armed men, which does not sound impressive-but they are supported by thousands of sympathetic or frightened peasants...
These gyrations seem not so much foolish as pathetic when viewed next to Bruno's twilight world. As he declines, the perception that life is a kind of dream through which most men move like drunken tram conductors struggles in his mind with his fading recollections of the flesh. Bruno recalls the anguish of his early loves, his failure with his son, and cannot keep the distant memory of these trumpery things, even now, from shredding his heart...