Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magazines, they write well, brilliantly sometimes." Yet what they write for their daily papers is often "quite appalling, long, loose, rambling and repetitive." This lifeless writing results, King declared, from a "fetish for objectivity." Reporters "divest news of its own inherent drama. They cast away the succulent flesh and offer the reader dry bones, coated with an insipid sauce of superfluous verbiage. They reject the flashing, illuminating phrase, which can make an unknown foreign statesman come vividly alive, or a dash of wit which may relieve the tedium unavoidably contained in much important news...
Just to Listen. The strict security arrangements kept Johnson from mingling with Latin Americans and pressing the flesh, but he made up for that in his private sessions with the Presidents. His face burnished copper by the warm Uruguayan sun, he sat in a lounge chair on the lawn of his seaside villa and, between formal summit sessions, received a steady procession of Latin American leaders in arm-gripping, rib-punching, face-to-face talks. "I'm not here to say 'You do that and you do this,'" Johnson told the Presidents. "I'm just here...
...role, Accident is a flawed work. The fault is largely that of Scriptwriter Harold Pinter (The Homecoming). His customarily cryptic dialogue probes too deeply, revealing all of the characters' inner anxiety and guilt, almost none of their outward life and feeling. Although they suffer from pangs of the flesh, they seem to be skeletal symbols rather than passionate human beings, not truly moving or fully alive. Accident ultimately suggests a tragedy that has been recorded not by a camera but by an X-ray machine...
...There was something almost diabolical about Verwoerd," says Helen Suzman, the opposition Progressive Party's only member in Parliament, "something on a different plane, above influencing, that actually made me frightened of the man. Vorster is flesh and blood...
...there was a Lila, she climbed an apple tree and fell to her death. And if there really was a Gus, he was a psychological basket case: "I did relate emotionally. I have no idea what color his brain was ... He had green eyes and a face of shifting flesh, and a name something like Charlie." Or maybe Eloise or Rebecca or Lila...