Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That Flesh-Eating Beast." All jaw and sophistical truth-aches is what ails The Condemned of Altona, at Lincoln Center's Beaumont Theater. Jean-Paul Sartre loves to play moral dentist to his time, and this play is his low-speed drill for making everyone cringe with guilt. An aged German shipping tycoon (George Coulouris) is dying of throat cancer, and he wants to get hand-on-the-Bible oaths of dynastic fealty from his daughter and two sons. Immured in an upstairs room, the elder son, Frantz, has not been seen by his father for 1 3 years...
...more exhuberant, bringing him into a closer affinity with the baroque Dutch masters. One of the most striking developments that emerged at this time was the perceptual depth of his painting. In works like Mrs. Humphrey Devereux he concentrated greater depths of psychological perception and achieved a more organic flesh color and texture than ever before. Copley treated the flesh of earlier portraits with more artificial coloring which usually was either pallid or green. In the aggregate, the works of this period represent a more confident individual style that stands above the standard formula for portraits...
Disdain for the Flesh. Until 1962, Krestova had been the ramshackle capital of the "Sons of Freedom," a fanatical sect of some 3,000 religious anarchists and a constant headache to the Canadian government. The Freedomites are part of a Russian nonconformist movement called the Doukhobors (literally "spirit wrestlers"), who came to Canada in 1899 and now number some 14,000 strong. Believing that man owes his only allegiance to God, the Freedomites are violently defiant of all "worldly" authority, including the Canadian government. To show their disdain for things of the flesh (and reveal a lot of their...
Then there are five places where the normal palm shows what researchers call a triradius-a wide-open letter Y formed by the junction of three lines. The crucial one is the axial triradius; on most palms it is just above the first flesh crease where hand joins wrist. If, in both hands, it is higher up, closer to the fingers, it may indicate inborn abnormalities from rubella or other causes...
...experiments demonstrate, Payne reports, that insects and their larvae hasten decomposition not only by feeding on the carcass, but also by spreading bacteria and by the simple mechanical process of burrowing through the flesh. "If it weren't for insects," Entomologist Payne says, "we'd be up to our necks in dead bodies...