Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...salesgirls (average weight: 90 Ibs.), who regard flesh as a disease, treat women of average proportions as carriers, whisk them into the street for quarantine. Anyone weighing more than 100 Ibs. is viewed with scorn. Size 14s are advised to stay indoors, or wear dresses. Nowhere else in the world must the customer alter to fit the clothes...
...Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries, Your male and female tissue sweetly shaped Sublimed away, and furious blood escaped...
SUNDAY IN NEW YORK. As a vacillating virgin who fears she has missed a lot, Jane Fonda makes the way of all flesh appear refreshingly healthy...
...Maupassant's fiction has been likened to that of "a peasant eating the good side of a wormy apple." It is Cheever's peculiar distinction to make his readers relish the Winesap flesh at the same time as he etymologizes on the worm: the importance of his fiction comes from the urgency of his moral insights. This puts his work in a different order of art from that of John O'Hara, a man of greater technical skill with a harder eye for the surface detail of current U.S. life, but one who is limited...
...Bottom Dogs, Lawrence predicted that its author's "next step is legal insanity." Instead, Dahlberg, now 63, became a poet, essayist, and shrewd, contentious critic who once said that he blamed T. S. Eliot "for nothing except the books that he has written." He calls Because I Was Flesh "an auto biography of my faults." It is the story of his first 46 years and of Lizzie, his mother, a Kansas City lady barber "with dyed, frizzled hair." Born out of wedlock, Dahlberg grew up sickly, sensitive and neglected; at the insistence of one of Lizzie's suitors...