Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poetry reading) that I'm just about to leave? Of course, the leaders of the Union of Writers must know what they are doing, but why haven't they informed me that I am sick? I am a Soviet writer, a human made of flesh and blood, not a puppet to be pulled on a string. This lying, prevarication and knocking people's heads together is standard practice. I am ashamed to be a member of the same union as these people...
...West Coast, the clubs and restaurants that feature topless female entertainers and waitresses also seemed to be going the way of all flesh. In Los Angeles, 20% of the joints have closed. In San Francisco, where crowds used to queue on the sidewalks waiting even for bar space, tables are going begging and one spot has switched back to old-fashioned belly-dancing. Reasons range from the competing tourist attraction of the hippie haunts in Haight-Ashbury to the high cost of drinks (usually $1.50) at the topless bars. But the chief cause may be simple overexposure. "When...
...there books are not present tense journalism or final history, but they are a demanding kind of literary specialty, and can be absorbing reading. Specific detail is summoned to flesh out the skeletal facts of history, the jumbled sequence of action is put in order. Walter Lord has the knack. A Night to Remember was his effective reconstruction of the Titanic disaster. Incredible
...doesn't know how to build action to a climax, either. Before the grand banquet, he offers several episodes as hors d'oeuvres. But it's like serving nine varieties of salami, then bringing on roast duck. By that time you've lost your appetite for animal flesh...
...celebrated trio of witches, Houseman has taken up Margaret Webster's suggestion that "we should see as little as possible of the Witches in the flesh of actors or actresses." In all three of their scenes, their voices are broadcast in a strong whisper over loudspeakers. In the first and third, they are not visible at all; and in the second they are represented by vaguely moving black shapes scarcely perceptible on the almost totally dark stage. This approach serves to increase the impact of the Witches as pervasive and ubiquitous symbols of evil. Only one of the voices...