Word: fleshed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...propitiate the devils in his mind, Jack courts the devil in the flesh, an Italian girl with the Spanish name of Veronica. But between bedroom and seaside trysts, Jack runs through flashbacks of Wife No. 1, a no-talent Greenwich Village actress, and Wife No. 2, an all-talents Hollywood star and nymphomaniac. When Veronica's boy friend shows up with a knife, Shaw stirs up enough plot to feed parts to an army of extras, expertly guides readers through a movie-colonist's Rome, febrile with sex and chicanery. He sauces his book with piquant if dubious...
...tiny (11,716 sq. mi.) British crown colony, entirely surrounded by the Union of South Africa. In theory, Basutoland is two-thirds Christian, but the real source of ultimate power, in the minds of most Basuto, is a gory brew called the diretlo. It is boiled up from human flesh, blood, fat, and herbs pounded into paste. To be really potent, the flesh must be stripped from a still living human body, which explains why 140 people have died since 1945-and 51 were accused of killings last year-to provide raw materials for diretlo...
...reflect the preoccupation with death then prevalent and resemble the skeletal figures in Holbein's Dance of Death, done earlier in the same century. With deft control of the wood, the craftsman of the Busch-Reisinger pieces grimly records the grotesque expressions on the legionaries' faces and the torn flesh as it hangs limply from their skeletons...
...team of crystal-ball-gazing scientists have predicted that within the decade it will be impossible for a man in the next room to tell whether he is talking to a man or a machine. We are nearing the ultimate in the American Dream, equality of flesh and metal...