Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following action, unless USG (backwards for the Government of the United States) does something about it. Sooner or later, the faithful cable reader gets the idea that the governments he reads about in the cables are entities that have an existence of their own, quite apart from the flesh and blood human beings whose continuing quarrels and occasional agreements are dimly reflected in the statements (and the rumors) emanating like so much ectoplasm from the anonymous mouths of their foreign office spokesmen...
...full-time cover girl, at least in Europe, where she reigns as undisputed queen of the newsstands; and Patrick Curtis, 32, her business manager and steady house guest; she for the second time; in a civil ceremony in Paris, for which she wore a white peekaboo minidress over a flesh-colored body stocking...
This first novel, which relates eight days in King's life, contains enough action-both lethal and sexual-to flesh out a sociological study of Harlem, and enough profanity to outfit a platoon of Marines. Shane Stevens has invented an idiom for his swaggering teen-agers that gives pungency to King's occasional meditations. On school, for example: "Everyone shouting and screaming and nobody care about what they is going on. But at least it somewhere to stay away from when they make you go." And on the purpose of fighting gangs: "In this bizness you got have...
...about the astronauts' last seconds. Quoting an unidentified "official source," the New York Times said that the three had suffered horribly as the fire spread: that they shrieked repeatedly, pleading for help; that they died scrabbling frantically at the sealed hatch cover of the capsule, leaving shreds of flesh on the metal; and that their bodies were incinerated until little more than bones remained...
...stage. Much of the sensual intensity generated by the play stems from Andre Gregory's flamboyant direction, which not only teases but strips. A Negro-white twosome sweatily mimic copulation in the theater aisle, and some of the African maidens could pass for topless in their transparent flesh-tinted bras...